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endoscope
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun endoscope has 1 sense
- endoscope(n = noun.artifact) - a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery; has particulars: arthroscope, colonoscope, culdoscope, gastroscope, laparoscope, proctoscope, flexible sigmoidoscope, sigmoidoscope
is a kind of medical instrument
Derived form adjective endoscopic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
endoscope, n. [Endo- + -scope.].
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 interior site from outside the body; it often has small surgical instruments attached to the end and manipulable from the outside, permitting biopsy or surgery. It is used as a non-invasive or minimally invasive tool for diagnosis or treatment, especially in organs having an external opening such as the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
endoscope, n. Surgery an instrument for viewing the internal parts of the body.
Derivative
endoscopic adj. endoscopically adv. endoscopist n. endoscopy n.
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