Surgical stitching or suturing of the heart muscle, typically used to repair tears or damage in cardiac tissue.
From cardio- (heart) and -rraphy (Greek graphia, writing, but in medicine means suturing from Greek rhaphe, seam). Surgical term combining Greek roots for cardiac repair procedures.
The suffix -rraphy shows up in surgery names—myorrhaphy (muscle suturing), perineorrhaphy (perineal suturing)—all describing the ancient craft of sewing tissue back together with stitches.
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