Definition of Gastroscope

1. Noun. A type of endoscope for visually examining the stomach.

Generic synonyms: Endoscope

Definition of Gastroscope

1. n. An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

Definition of Gastroscope

1. Noun. a form of endoscope used to view the inside of the stomach ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gastroscope

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Gastroscope

1. An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach. Origin: Gastro- + -scope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastroscope

gastropods
gastroptosis
gastroptyxis
gastropub
gastropubs
gastropulmonary
gastropylorectomy
gastropyloric
gastroraphy
gastrorrhagia
gastrorrhaphy
gastrorrhexis
gastrorrhoea
gastroschisis
gastroscope (current term)
gastroscopes
gastroscopic
gastroscopies
gastroscopist
gastroscopists
gastroscopy
gastrospasm
gastrospirillum
gastrospirillum hominis
gastrosplenic
gastrosplenic ligament
gastrosplenic omentum
gastrostaxis
gastrostege

Literary usage of Gastroscope

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

1. Diseases of the Stomach by Ismar Boas (1907)
"The gastroscope is introduced while the patient is on an operating table, with his 110 Rosenheim, Berliner klin. Wochenschrift, 1896, No. ..."

2. Diseases of the Stomach and Upper Alimentary Tract by Anthony Bassler (1910)
"Mikulic determined one point, namely, that a gastroscope must be Fig. 26.—Dr. Chevalier Jackson's gastroscope. Rosenheim went a step further and said that ..."

3. Diseases of the Digestive Organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"Recently William Hill, of London, has modified Killian's instrument, making an esophago-gastroscope by adding a plane glass window at the proximal end, ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"(e) The State of the Mucous Membranes of the Stomach as Inspected through the gastroscope (Gastroscopy) Through the studies of Mikulicz, of Rosenheim, and, ..."

5. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"The introduction of the gastroscope should be preceded by a most thorough and careful physical examination of the patient and especial attention should be ..."

6. Diseases of the stomach: Their Special Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment by John Conrad Hemmeter (1902)
"The first one to use a gastroscope was Mikulicz ("Ueber Gas- troskopie u. Oesophagoskopie," "Wien. med. Presse," 1881, No. 43; also "Wien. med. ..."

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