Microsurgery

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Surgical procedures that are very small.

    "Reattaching his severed finger required microsurgery to suture together the tiny blood vessels."

  2. 2
    surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to techniques of surgery on very small or delicate parts of the body. not-comparable

Example

More examples

"Each underwent a ten-minute microsurgery barely 24 hours earlier, in temporary field hospitals where medical teams worked with assembly-line efficiency: making tiny slits in eyeballs, delicately removing cataracts, and inserting artificial lenses."

Etymology

From micro- + surgery.

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