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operating microscope - binocular microscope used in surgery to provide a clear view of small and inaccessible parts of the body (as in microsurgery)

binocular microscope - a light microscope adapted to the use of both eyes

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While viewing the ear through an operating microscope, the surgeon reshapes and transposes the bones, replacing an ossicle with a plastic substitute or grafting an ossicle from cartilage.

WHAT'S THIS PROCEDURE? TYMPANOPLASTY

Emphasizing the preservation of natural dentition and patient-centered outcomes, endodontists from the US, New Zealand, Jamaica, and Europe provide 41 chapters outlining daily practice, techniques, and cases in endodontics, focusing on the use of a dental operating microscope and cone beam computed tomography.

Best Practices in Endodontics: A Desk Reference

The use of the surgical headlamps and dental loupes has evolved into the use of operating microscope.

VALIDITY OF DIFFERENT METHODS FOR MB-2 CANAL LOCATION IN PERMANENT MAXILLARY MOLARS

Evaluation with an operating microscope and removal of all cerumen is essential to the diagnosis of occult cholesteatomas, as this case demonstrated.

Attic cholesteatoma

High-performance materials like the lightweight Baydur 110 polyurethane system are said to be ideal for use in the field of operating microscopes, such as the Leica Microsystems F40 operating microscope.

Polyurethane system makes microscopes lighter/safer

Surgeons used an operating microscope and stitches finer than hair to bring together blood vessels and nerves.

Doctors sew boy's nose on

He must have one hell of an operating microscope, and I hope it works better than the scanner, the two 4X4s, the pacemaker programmer, and my internist's wife's car.

Machines