MICROSURGERY
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)
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)
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