See Also: microscopically controlled surgery(medicine)
Microscopically(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
depressed(dictionary)
Depressed(medicine)
depressed(dictionary)
Depressed price(finance)
Depressed market(finance)
Depressed Area(money)
Depressed market(money)

microscopically controlled surgery (medicine) and depressed (iou)


microscopically controlled surgery (medicine)


microscopically controlled surgery


Minimally invasive surgery, operative procedure performed in a manner derived to result in the smallest possible incision or no incision at all; includes laparoscopic, laparoscopically assisted, thoracoscopic, and endoscopic surgical procedures.

Synonym: Mohs' chemosurgery.


depressed (iou)



depressed ppl adjective. LME.
[from DEPRESS + -ED1.]
1. Astrology. Of a planet: in its least influential position. Only in LME.
2. Having a flattened or hollowed form, such as would result from downward pressure. L16.
3. Pressed down; put or kept down by force or pressure. E17.
4. Brought low in fortune or status; oppressed; socially or economically deprived. E17.
b. Lowered in energy, force, intensity, amount, or degree; weakened. M19.
5. Lowered in physical position, sunken; lower than the General surface. M17.
6. Dejected, dispirited; suffering from depression. L18.
Special collocations: depressed area an area of economic depression. depressed class(es) (in the Indian subcontinent) the lowest caste(s). depressed fracture a fracture of the skull involving displacement of bone inward from the normal cranial contour.
depressedly adverb M18.