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Ophthalmoscope

Ophthalmoscope \Oph*thal"mo*scope\, n. [From Gr. 'ofqalmo`s the eye + -scope.] (Physiol.) An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens. -- Oph*thal`mo*scop"ic, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ophthalmoscope

1857 in English; coined 1852 by\nGerman physician and physicist Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821–1894) from ophthalmo- + -scope.

Wiktionary
ophthalmoscope

n. an instrument for examining the interior of the eye

WordNet
ophthalmoscope

n. medical instrument for examining the retina of the eye

Usage examples of "ophthalmoscope".

I switched on the little light on the ophthalmoscope and peered into the depths of that most magical and delicate of all organs, down through the lens to the brilliant tapestry of the retina with its optic papilla and branching blood vessels.

While squinting through his ophthalmoscope, he carefully rotated the protruding spindle stub to the left.

Lia was off at one side, peering among the branches of a grove of Lahit, using an ophthalmoscope on their holly-berry eyes.

Thermometers, dynamometers, exploring-tubes, little mirrors that went half-way down to my stomach, tuning-forks, ophthalmoscopes, percussion-hammers, single and double stethoscopes, speculums, sphygmometers,--such a battery of detective instruments I had never imagined.

To me, most of the exchanges were medical gobbledygook, but I translated enough to comprehend that what they were seeing through their ophthalmoscopes was most unusual.

I ran through a gauntlet of tests--magnetic resonance imaging, more X rays, many electroencephalographs, at least a dozen more visits to the cubicles where my eyes were examined through ophthalmoscopes, and twice that number of needles puncturing my arms to draw off blood for laboratory examination.

Then he lowered the lights in the examination room to study his eyes with an ophthalmometer and an ophthalmoscope.