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21heart-lung transplant — operation in which a defective heart and lungs are replaced by healthy ones …
22National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (or NHLBI) is a division of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland. It is tasked with allocating about $2.7 billion in United States tax revenue per year (fiscal year 2004… …
23Machine, heart-lung — A machine that does the work both of the heart (pump blood) and the lungs (oxygenate the blood). Used, for example, in open heart surgery. Blood returning to the heart is diverted through the machine before returning it to the arterial… …
24heart-lung machine — noun (C) a machine that pumps blood and oxygen around someone s body during a medical operation …
25Lung transplantation — Intervention ICD 9 CM 33.5 MeSH …
26heart-lungmachine — heart lung machine (härtʹlŭngʹ) n. An apparatus through which blood is temporarily diverted, especially during heart surgery, to oxygenate it and pump it throughout the body, thus maintaining circulation until the heart and lungs are able to… …
27Blood Institute, National Heart, Lung, and (NHLBI) — One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NHLBI’s mission is to “provide leadership for a national research program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and blood and in transfusion medicine through support of… …
28National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) — One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NHLBI’s mission is to “provide leadership for a national research program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and blood and in transfusion medicine through support of… …
29heart — n. 1 a hollow muscular organ maintaining the circulation of blood by rhythmic contraction and dilation. 2 the region of the heart; the breast. 3 a the heart regarded as the centre of thought, feeling, and emotion (esp. love). b a person s… …
30Heart transplant — A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a deceased person. The world’s first heart transplant was done on December 3, 1967 by South African surgeon Christiaan Bernard (1922 2001). The recipient… …
