MICROSURGERY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (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)

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