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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Surgery on minute body structures or cells performed with the aid of a microscope and other specialized instruments, such as a micromanipulator.

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  • adjective Relating to techniques of surgery on very small or delicate parts of the body.
  • noun Surgical procedures that are very small.

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

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Examples

  • Intuition leads to the flat earth society and bloodletting; experiments lead to men on the moon and microsurgery.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • These were grafted by microsurgery to what remained of the patient's own face and the blood supply reconnected.

    Roger Ebert: 'I'm happy I don't look worse' 2011

  • While we like to think the Internet, the iPhone and microsurgery have dramatically altered the way we live, those changes pale in comparison to the impact on living standards from the introduction of electricity, motor cars and penicillin.

    Much of nation's recent growth may have been a mirage Steven Pearlstein 2011

  • Intuition leads to the flat earth society and bloodletting; experiments lead to men on the moon and microsurgery.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Intuition leads to the flat earth society and bloodletting; experiments lead to men on the moon and microsurgery.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Both surgeries failed because microsurgery to reattach blood vessels broke down.

    Roger Ebert: 'I'm happy I don't look worse' 2011

  • CCD technology is also used in many medical applications, e.g. imaging the inside of the human body, both for diagnostics and for microsurgery.

    The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics - Press Release 2009

  • Incredible what they can do with microsurgery nowadays.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Here’s what I did at six o’clock this morning. 2009

  • He charged that such prejudice has been promoted "for decades, despite breathtaking advances in fetal medicine including microsurgery and disease mitigation underscoring the fact that an unborn child is often a patient in need of care, just like anyone else,...."

    Still waiting for a definition of 'forcible rape' Jonathan Capehart 2011

  • And, in microsurgery, a doctor might focus on the artery he or she is trying to repair rather than the precise movement of his or her fingers and hands.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

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