Category: C

An operation that involves cutting the wall of the heart. Surgical cut into either the heart or the cardia of the stomach.  

The recording of the heartbeat of a fetus. The automatic recording in graphic form of fetal heart rate and the amplitude, duration, and frequency of the muscular contractions of the womb during labor.  

Referring to the heart and the chest region.  

The heart and lungs considered together as a functional unit.  

A machine or method for artificially circulating the patient’s blood during open-heart surgery. The heart and lungs are cut off from the circulation and replaced by a pump. A procedure used to divert blood from the heart and lungs while maintaining perfusion and oxygenation to the rest of the body through the use of a…

The stopping of a patient’s heart, by chilling it or using drugs, so that heart surgery can be performed. Deliberate and temporary paralysis of the heart for the purpose of performing surgery on the heart. A procedure whereby the heart is stopped by reducing its temperature (hypothermia); by injecting the muscle with a solution of…

A microphone attached to a patient to record sounds, usually used to record the heart of an unborn baby.  

Any kind of heart disease.  

An operation to treat cardiac achalasia by splitting the ring of muscles where the oesophagus joins the stomach. Surgical therapy for achalasia. The muscles surrounding the cardioesophageal junction are cut, while the underlying mucous membrane is left intact.  

An operation to improve the functioning of the heart, by using the latissimus dorsi as a stimulant. Surgical implantation of skeletal muscle to either supplement or replace myocardial muscle.