How to Use microsurgery in a Sentence

microsurgery

noun

• Flap procedure that uses microsurgery to remove skin, blood vessels and tissue from my abdomen to rebuild my breasts.
  — NBC News, 1 Oct. 2020
• The robot looks like a stout, little filing cabinet with one long arm, a simple-looking contraption that belies the precision of the brain, ear and throat microsurgeries it is designed to improve.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Other bits of architectural microsurgery quiet the tower on the skyline, slightly.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• Patricia's liver required an unusual amount of microsurgery to connect to her father's bile ducts and arteries.
  — Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
• Da Vinci, a robot nurse, is designed to assist with urological microsurgery.
  — Momus, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2006
• After inspecting the mummy, Ledbetter confirmed such a procedure could be done though endoscopic microsurgery, Gleach said.
  — Maxime Tamsett, CNN, 1 May 2022
• Beyond cataract surgery, eye specialists perform a long list of procedures, like eyelid and retinal repairs, corneal grafts, and microsurgery involving tiny needles and thread that allow precise suturing of perforating wounds.
  — Susan Jenks, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• The enormous increase in free-flap breast surgeries — arguably itself a form of gender-affirming care — advanced microsurgery’s sophistication, allowing the modern phalloplasty to be born.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2022
• Recently, Josh Bongard, a computer scientist at the University of Vermont, designed a computer model in which small robotic cubes connect, creating microrobots that might someday clean up toxic waste or perform microsurgery.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024