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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.  

The action of recording the heartbeat. Technique of electronically recording the activity of the heart to produce a cardiogram; also called electrocardiography. The recording and study of the electrical activity of the heart.  

A technician who operates a cardiograph.  

An instrument which records the heartbeat. A device for registering the electrical activity of the heart muscle. A device used to graphically record the heartbeat.  

Ligaments forming a band of connective tissue that extends from the uterine cervix and vagina to the pelvic walls.  

One of the veins which lead from the myocardium to the right atrium. Any of the veins that run along the surface of the heart parallel to the coronary arteries and drain the heart muscle. They converge into the coronary sinus, which runs in the coronary groove between the left atrium and left ventricle on…