n :  surgical implantation of an internal thoracic artery into the myocardium
 
Vineberg, Arthur Martin (1903-1988), Canadian surgeon. Vineberg served as director of cardiothoracic surgery at one Montreal hospital and as a consultant in cardiac surgery at several others. In 1945 he began research on the revascularization of the myocardium for the treatment of coronary insufficiency.
 
 
 
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