MICROSURGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microsurgery mean? 

• MICROSURGERY (noun)
  The noun MICROSURGERY has 1 sense:

1. surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures

  Familiarity information: MICROSURGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROSURGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("microsurgery" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "microsurgery"):

robotic telesurgery (microsurgery in which the surgeon performs surgery by manipulating the hands of a robot)

 Context examples 

Lasers are used in microsurgery, photodynamic therapy, and many other procedures to diagnose and treat disease.

(Laser, NCI Dictionary)

They then measured the effects of these "microsurgeries" on behavior.

(Fundamental Rules for How The Brain Controls Movement, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)