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endoscope

[ en-duh-skohp ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.
  1. a slender, tubular optical instrument used as a viewing system for examining an inner part of the body and, with an attached instrument, for biopsy or surgery.


endoscope

/ ɛnˈdɒskəpɪst; ˌɛndəʊˈskɒpɪk; ˈɛndəʊˌskəʊp /

noun

  1. a long slender medical instrument used for examining the interior of hollow organs including the lung, stomach, bladder, and bowel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

endoscope

/ ĕndə-skōp′ /

  1. A medical instrument used for visual examination of the interior of a body cavity or a hollow organ such as the colon, bladder, or stomach. It is a rigid or flexible tube fitted with lenses, a fiber-optic light source, and often a probe, forceps, suction device, or other apparatus for examination or retrieval of tissue.
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Derived Forms

  • endoscopist, noun
  • endoscopic, adjective
  • enˈdoscopy, noun
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Other Words From

  • en·do·scop·ic [en-d, uh, -, skop, -ik], adjective
  • en·dos·co·pist [en-, dos, -k, uh, -pist], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of endoscope1

First recorded in 1860–65; endo- + -scope
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Example Sentences

The standard method involves inserting an endoscope — a flexible tube with a camera on one end — into a patient’s throat and threading it down to the stomach.

Bringing out a bisected piece of a heart, Dr. Shumpei Mori displayed how its inner architecture could be captured on camera, threading a catheter through the organ as a co-worker snaked in an endoscope.

In hopes of preventing those complications from occurring, researchers at MIT have developed a new gel, GastroShield, that can be sprayed onto the surgical sites through an endoscope.

They used video from an endoscope, a thin, tube-like instrument, to image the phonic lips in harbor porpoises and bottlenosed dolphins in captivity.

From Reuters

Conservationists have been recording the joey's growth with a special endoscope camera that has been placed in the mother's pouch every few weeks.

From BBC

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