The manipulation of individual cells under a microscope.
〔生〕（个体细胞的）显微操纵（术）
Example sentencesExamples
To make a more quantitative study of nuclear protein, a combination of tritium labeling, autoradiography, and micrurgy was performed with the amoeba cultures.
In recent years such high-precision instruments have been developed, and microsurgery on cells, known as micrurgy, has become an important part of the study of protoplasm.
A strain of large, free-living amoeba that became dependent on bacterial endosymbionts which had infected the amoebae initially as intracellular parasites, was studied by micrurgy and electron microscopy.
These spectacles are useful in endoscopic micrurgy, various medical fields, in jewelry, electronics, dentistry, and for making precision assemblies and the like.
The agar gel apparently replaces the medium that evaporates, and there is no damage to the cells during the period required for micrurgy.
Derivatives
micrurgical
adjective
Biology
Results of studies by our group on amoebae as moving cells, as material for micrurgical manipulations, and as hosts for intracellular symbionts are summarized here.
Example sentencesExamples
Thus, micrurgical fragmentation of young exconjugant cells can be used to accelerate maturation in D. anser.
Origin
1920s: from micro- 'small' + Greek -ourgia 'work'.