aortoplasty

English

Etymology

From aorta +‎ -plasty.

Noun

aortoplasty (plural aortoplasties)

1. (surgery) reconstruction of a damaged aorta
   • 2015 August 1, Tomasz Plonek et al., “Biomechanical analysis of wrapping of the moderately dilated ascending aorta”, in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery‎^[1], volume 10, →DOI:

     To date, the results of wrapping with and without concomitant aortoplasty have been promising [ 9, 15, 16, 10, 17 – 20, 3, 21 – 23, 5, 24, 25, 6, 7, 26, 8 ].