Look up: endoscope


  1. endoscope
    [n] - a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery
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  2. endoscope
    A medical instrument used to examine the inside of the body.
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  3. Endoscope
    An instrument for examining visually the interior of a bodily canal or a hollow organ such as the colon, bladder, or stomach.
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  4. Endoscope
    a lighted instrument used to view the inside of a body cavity
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  5. Endoscope
    An illuminated tube with lenses used to look inside hollow organs (i.e. the stomach; urinary bladder)
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  6. endoscope
    An instrument for looking inside the body. Usually flexible and fibreoptic (see Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy).
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  7. Endoscope
    a surgical device for seeing inside of the body via small incisions, through a tube with an attached camera and light source;
    Found op http://www.transforminglives.co.uk/glossary.xhtml

  8. Endoscope
    An instrument for examining the interior of a hollow organ.
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  9. Endoscope
    Endoscope: A lighted optical instrument used to get a deep look inside the body and examine organs such as the throat or esophagus. An endoscope can be rigid or flexible. Specialized endoscopes are named depending where they are intended to look. Examples include: cystoscope (bladder), nephroscope (...
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  10. Endoscope
    A device with a light attached, used to look inside a body cavity or organ.
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  11. Endoscope
    En'do·scope noun [ Endo- + -scope .] (Medicine) An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
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  12. endoscope
    <instrument> An expensive and usually highly flexible viewing instrument with capabilities of diagnostic (biopsy) or even therapeutic functions through special channels. ... For the flexible variety the additional word, fibreoptic is added. The viewing component is made up of hundreds of mini ...
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  1. endoscope
    noun a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery
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  2. endoscope
    (en´do-skōp) an instrument used for direct visual inspection of hollow organs or body cavities. Specially designed endoscopes are used for such examinations as bronchoscopy, cystoscopy, gastroscopy, and proctoscopy.
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  3. Endoscope
    • (n.) An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
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  4. endoscope
    (from the article `cancer`) ...tomography (CT) scans, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be essential, and radioisotopes can be used to visualize certain organs or regions ...
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  5. Endoscope
    A long, thin tube that is used to view internal body parts or assist with surgery. The instrument has a light and a camera at the tip, which projects bright and magnified images of the body. An endoscope can be used during pregnancy to view the fetus, diagnose abdominal bleeding or severe pain in th...
    Found op http://www.pregnology.com/AZ/E/3

  6. endoscope
    endoscope, any instrument used to look inside the body. Usually consisting of a fiber-optic tube attached to a viewing device, endoscopes are used to explore and biopsy such areas as the colon and the bronchi of the lungs. Endoscopes employing miniature television cameras and tiny surgical implement...
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  7. Endoscope
    An endoscope is a long slender medical instrument originally used for examining the interior of hollow organs including the lung, stomach, bladder and bowel, but with the advent of fibre optics and keyhole surgery endoscopes are increasingly used for general interior investigations (endoscopy) . The...
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  8. endoscope
    Type: Term Pronunciation: en′dō-skōp Definitions: 1. An instrument for the examination or surgical manipulation (biopsy, resection, reconstruction) of the interior of a canal or hollow viscus.
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  9. Endoscope
    A thin, flexible instrument that is used to examine the inside of parts of the body. The bronchoscope, cystoscope and colonoscope are all types of endoscope.
    Found op http://www.patientinfo.selcn.nhs.uk/glossary?startswith=E

  10. Endoscope
    An instrument using fiberoptics to view the inside of body cavities
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  11. Endoscope
    An endoscope is a tube-shaped surgical instrument equipped with a light and camera lens in order to view an internal cavity of the body. The use of an endoscope during surgery allows operations to be done through several one-inch incisions to view the involved tissue and operative site with less dis...
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  12. endoscope
    A thin, tube-like instrument used to look at tissues inside the body. An endoscope has a light and a lens for viewing and may have a tool to remove tissue.
    Found op http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary?expand=E

  13. endoscope
    1) Medical instrument
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