Endoscopy
/ɛnˈdɔ.skə.pi/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 visual examination of the interior of a hollow body organ by use of an endoscope wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"An endoscopy is used to examine a person's digestive tract."
Etymology
From endo- + -scopy.