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A long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery
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endoscope
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. an instrument used to examine a bodily orifice or canal, or a hollow organ
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A skilled endoscopist is essential, but the equipment can be as simple as a standard endoscope and an injection needle. ▪ A third way, called an endoscope , uses the principle of total internal reflection which we saw in the ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An endoscope is an illuminated optical, typically slender and tubular instrument used to look deep into the body and used in procedures called an endoscopy . "Endo" is Greek for "within" while "scope" comes from the Greek word "skopos" meaning to target ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Endoscope \En"do*scope\, n. [Endo- + -scope.] (Med.) An instrument for examining the interior of the body, consisting of a flexible tube with lenses and optical fibers permitting illumination of the interior site to be inspected, and visualization of the ...
Usage examples of endoscope.
Then he slid a flimsi-thin flat endoscope around the jamb, working it back and forth, slowly and carefully.
It's called an endoscope, and it's a special lens attachment for his 35mm camera.
A gray like me, she's dressed in conservative linen paper, fashioned like a TV doctor's costume, all the way down to the endoscope hanging from her trim neck.
Hawass on his further reasons for expelling John West and his team from the Sphinx enclosure: ‘I have found that their work is carried out by installing endoscopes in the Sphinx’s body and shooting films for all phases of the work in a propaganda .