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Definition of Endoscope

1. Noun. A long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery.

Definition of Endoscope

1. n. An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.

Definition of Endoscope

1. Noun. an instrument used to examine a bodily orifice or canal, or a hollow organ ¹

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Definition of Endoscope

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Endoscope

1. 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 light transmitting glass fibres bundled tightly together. Today there is virtually an endoscope available for every single orifice and space in the body! Endoscopes have also revolutionalised many procedures - as in laparasocopic surgery, the diagnosis of peptic ulcers, of some lung tumours and those in the urogenital tract. (07 Apr 1998)

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Literary usage of Endoscope

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1886)
"A polypus was detected, snared, its base scraped with a spoon through the endoscope, and digital examination subsequently performed to ascertain if the ..."

2. Diseases of the Urinary and Male Sexual Organs by William Thomas Belfield (1884)
"Thus, with an endoscope 10 ctm. long, it is usually easy to inspect the bulbous and even the membranous urethra through this manœuvre, though the natural ..."

3. A Practical treatise on the diseases of women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1869)
"If the cervix be dilated, the endoscope may be at once introduced after the part ... The endoscope will, probably, never prove of great value in this field. ..."

4. Treatise on the Diseases of Women: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (1897)
"Another method of examination is by means of the endoscope. For this purpose I devised and have employed for years an endoscope which has FIG. aw. proved of ..."

5. The Collected Works of Christian Fenger, M. D. 1840-1902 by Christian Fenger, Fenger memorial association (1912)
"After several years of experimentation with a view of simplifying the endoscope I decided upon the use of the following instrument: 1. ..."

6. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1865)
"THE UTILITY OF THE endoscope AS AN AID IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE. ... [The endoscope is an instrument for the direct exploration of internal ..."

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