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

endoscope

/ ĕn′də-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.

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

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

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Science Daily

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