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Endoscopy

//ɛnˈdɔ.skə.pi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The examination of a bodily orifice, canal or organ using an endoscope.

    "But less complex scopes also pose contamination risks – and they’re used on far more people: Each year in the United States, doctors perform more than 15 million colonoscopies and 7 million endoscopies of the upper GI tract."

  2. 2
    visual examination of the interior of a hollow body organ by use of an endoscope wordnet

Etymology

From endo- + -scopy.

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