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colonoscopy

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Word definitions for colonoscopy in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Colonoscopy or coloscopy is the endoscopic examination of the large bowel and the distal part of the small bowel with a CCD camera or a fiber optic camera on a flexible tube passed through the anus . It can provide a visual diagnosis (e.g. ulceration , ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1902 (earlier procto-colonoscopy , 1896; colonoscope attested from 1884), from colon (n.2) + -oscopy (see -scope ).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) The examination of the colon using a colonoscope.

Usage examples of colonoscopy.

A longer and fatter hose with a spherical blob on the end got fed down the toilet, a colonoscopy probing the bowels of the ship’s waste plumbing circuit.

It was an episode covering colonoscopy and the lack of an expected wedding invitation.

Gus, who during a colonoscopy, higher than a kite on Demerol, asked his doctor if they had gotten to the ileum, because even with his brain cradled in opiates, Gus just liked to know.