Barnard Christiaan Neethling
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Bar·nard
(bär′nərd, bär-närd′), Christiaan Neethling 1923-2001. South African surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant (1967).
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Bar·nard
(bär′nərd), Christiaan Neethling 1923-2001. South African surgeon who performed the first successful human heart transplant, in 1967.
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