Culdoscopy

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina. countable, uncountable

    "Decker had just introduced his culdoscope and was advocating culdoscopy. I actually saw two peritoneoscopies during training but it had not achieved wide use."

  2. 2
    endoscopic examination of a woman's pelvic organs by the insertion of a culdoscope through the vagina wordnet

Synonyms

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archaic gynecologic endoscopygynecologic endoscopyhistorical endoscopyobsolete endoscopypelvic endoscopy

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"Decker had just introduced his culdoscope and was advocating culdoscopy. I actually saw two peritoneoscopies during training but it had not achieved wide use."

Etymology

From culdo- + -scopy.

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