How to Use microsurgery in a Sentence
microsurgery
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Flap procedure that uses microsurgery to remove skin, blood vessels and tissue from my abdomen to rebuild my breasts.
—NBC News, 1 Oct. 2020
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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
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Other bits of architectural microsurgery quiet the tower on the skyline, slightly.
—New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
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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
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Da Vinci, a robot nurse, is designed to assist with urological microsurgery.
—Momus, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2006
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After inspecting the mummy, Ledbetter confirmed such a procedure could be done though endoscopic microsurgery, Gleach said.
—Maxime Tamsett, CNN, 1 May 2022
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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
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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
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