microsurgery

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microsurgery

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Etymology

From micro- +‎ surgery.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

microsurgery (not comparable)

1. Relating to techniques of surgery on very small or delicate parts of the body.

Noun

microsurgery (plural microsurgeries)

1. Surgical procedures that are very small.

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

Derived terms

• laryngomicrosurgery
• phonomicrosurgery
• supermicrosurgery
• supramicrosurgery

Translations

surgical procedures that are very small

Azerbaijani: mikrocərrahiyyə (az) Chinese: Mandarin: (chiefly as a branch of medicine) 顯微外科 / 显微外科 (xiǎnwēi wàikē), (chiefly as a procedure) 顯微手術 / 显微手术 (xiǎnwēi shǒushù) Finnish: mikrokirurgia French: microchirurgie (fr) f Russian: мѝкрохирурги́я (ru) f (mìkroxirurgíja) Spanish: microcirugía f Swedish: mikrokirurgi c Turkish: mikrocerrahi (tr)