cardiopexy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cardiopexy (countable and uncountable, plural cardiopexies)
- (surgery) The fixing in place of the heart by means of a ligature
- 2015 July 27, Ruelan V. Furtado et al., “Massive hiatus hernia complicated by jaundice”, in Journal of Surgical Case Reports[1], volume 2015, :
- Total fundoplication and cardiopexy were performed as described by D'Netto et al .