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endoscope
[ en-duh-skohp ]
noun
- 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
- a long slender medical instrument used for examining the interior of hollow organs including the lung, stomach, bladder, and bowel
endoscope
/ ĕn′də-skōp′ /
- 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.
Derived Forms
- endoscopist, noun
- endoscopic, adjective
- enˈdoscopy, noun
Other Words From
- en·do·scop·ic [en-d, uh, -, skop, -ik], adjective
- en·dos·co·pist [en-, dos, -k, uh, -pist], noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of endoscope1
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.
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.
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