Bronchoscopy

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A technique for viewing the bronchi using a flexible instrument called a bronchoscope.

    "The center reported in May that its tests showed that Mr. Speaker had XDR-TB, based on cultures from a lung procedure, a bronchoscopy, at a hospital in Atlanta."

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"The center reported in May that its tests showed that Mr. Speaker had XDR-TB, based on cultures from a lung procedure, a bronchoscopy, at a hospital in Atlanta."

Etymology

From broncho- + -scopy.

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