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microsurgery|maɪkrəʊˈsɜːdʒərɪ|
[f. micro- 2 a + surgery.]
Manipulation (as by injection, dissection, etc.) of individual cells with the aid of microscopy; surgery of such delicacy as to necessitate microscopy.
1927Protoplasma II. 203 Micro-surgery of plant cells shows that the impression of fluidity which one gets from mere microscopic observation is illusory. 1928E. V. Cowdry Special Cytol. i. 7 With the apparatus of Chambers it is feasible to isolate a cell, to take it up with a pipette, to incise part of it and to inoculate into its cytoplasm a small amount of fluid. This microsurgery has been applied to the investigation of many problems. 1941Bot. Rev. VII. 355 Harder (1926), by microsurgery, isolated the penultimate cell of a growing hypha of Coprinus sterquilinus. 1960McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. IV. 571/2 As gastrulation and embryo formation proceed, microsurgery becomes more and more the instrument of choice for analysis. The defect experiment tests the effect of removal of one part or rudiment. 1971Nature 2 July 28/1 The techniques of microsurgery on single cells have been applied to a variety of cell types. 1973Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 10 June 28/2 Microsurgery has been used in brain operations for the last five years, beginning in Europe.
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1963Science 5 July 46/3 (heading) Ruby laser as a microsurgical instrument. 1968H. Harris Nucleus & Cytoplasm iv. 81 Nuclei which were divested of virtually all their cytoplasm by microsurgical procedures none the less retained their ability to produce specific puffing patterns. 1974Nature 29 Mar. 450/1 Microsurgical removal of the root cap of Zea has been shown to prevent the response of the roots to gravity. |