Crossword clues for microsurgery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Relating to techniques of surgery on very small or delicate parts of the body. n. surgery procedures that are very small.
WordNet
n. surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures
Wikipedia
Microsurgery is a general term for surgery requiring an operating microscope. The most obvious developments have been procedures developed to allow anastomosis of successively smaller blood vessels and nerves (typically 1 mm in diameter) which have allowed transfer of tissue from one part of the body to another and re-attachment of severed parts. Microsurgical techniques are utilized by several specialties today, such as: general surgery, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, gynecological surgery, otolaryngology, neurosurgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery, podiatric surgery and pediatric surgery.
Usage examples of "microsurgery".
At the far end, a hundred yards from where he sat, the raised dais that held the throne was now a stage that displayed two gleaming stainless steel tables, side by side, each with its own full panoply of life-support equipment, blinking monitors, and microsurgery apparatus, and each with its own fully staffed surgical team in bubble helmets and sterile grays.
Even with most of the microsurgery done from a distance, and the thousands of microsutures done by a high-speed computer program, it would be tremendously complicated to reconnect all the major systems at once.
I was down by the lake, recovering from Reese's simple microsurgery and skimming stones with a girl of about six who seemed to have adopted me.
I wasn't in any condition to perform microsurgery, but walking and chewing gum at the same time weren't beyond me.
Pinpoint chemotherapy and laser microsurgery were brought to bear, but no sooner had one crop of seeds been destroyed than another wave appeared to take its place.
No electron microscopes, no ultracentrifuges, no microsurgery equipment—nothing but early twentieth-century stuff: optical microscopes and Bunsen burners, the kinds of things you buy kids for Christmas.