How to Use microsurgery in a Sentence

microsurgery

noun

• While commonly used in microsurgery, it is rarely applied to ear reattachment.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
• Flap procedure that uses microsurgery to remove skin, blood vessels and tissue from my abdomen to rebuild my breasts.
  — NBC News, 1 Oct. 2020
• Da Vinci, a robot nurse, is designed to assist with urological microsurgery.
  — Momus, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2006
• 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
• Other bits of architectural microsurgery quiet the tower on the skyline, slightly.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• Pushing microsurgery limits While the ear was being preserved on the foot, surgeons worked to reconstruct the patient’s scalp and neck using skin grafts taken from her abdomen.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
• 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
• After inspecting the mummy, Ledbetter confirmed such a procedure could be done though endoscopic microsurgery, Gleach said.
  — Maxime Tamsett, CNN, 1 May 2022
• Nevertheless, the procedure itself began to improve in the ’80s with the gradual advancement of microsurgery.
  — New York Times, 10 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
• By translating hand movements into ultra-precise motions at a smaller scale, the robot helps eliminate tremors and strain that often limit the duration and accuracy of traditional microsurgery.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
• The woman was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries, where a medical team, led by Qiu Shenqiang, a deputy director of the hospital’s microsurgery unit, determined that conventional reattachment was impossible due to the severity of the injuries.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
• 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
• The unprecedented procedure was conducted by a microsurgery team at Jinan’s Shandong Provincial Hospital, after the patient, identified only as Sun, suffered a devastating factory accident in which her hair got trapped in machinery during her shift.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025