telesurgery

British  

/ ˌtɛlɪˈsɜːdʒərɪ /

noun

1. surgical operations carried out by a surgeon in a distant place by means of a computer or satellite link and robotic instruments

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Example Sentences

UK surgeons have taken part in major telesurgery breakthroughs, including a 4,000‑mile transatlantic robotic stroke procedure on a cadaver - a body of someone who has donated themselves to science - proving long‑distance surgery was technically possible.

From BBC

Intuitive Surgical is pursuing the concepts of “telementoring” or “teleproctoring” rather than telesurgery.

From The Guardian

True telesurgery, Roger Smith suggests, also begs a further question, one which we may yet hear in the coming decade or so.

From The Guardian

The other holy grail of telesurgery – the possibility of remote “battlefield” operations – is closer to being a reality.

From The Guardian

He envisages three possible champions of telesurgery: the military, “If you could, say, create a connection where the surgeon could be in Italy and the patient in Iraq”; medical missionaries, “Where surgeons in the developed world worked through robots in places without advanced surgeons”; and Nasa, “At a point where you have enough people in space that you need to set up a way to do surgery.”

From The Guardian