endoscopy

English

Etymology

From endo- +‎ -scopy.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈdɔ.skə.pi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

endoscopy (plural endoscopies)

1. (medicine) The examination of a bodily orifice, canal or organ using an endoscope.
   • 2018 August 3, Emily Bazar, “Questions to ask before a colonoscopy to avoid dangerous infections”, in CNN‎:

     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.

   • 2023 May 26, Jacqueline Howard and Kyla Russell, “As colorectal cancer rises among younger adults, some seek colonoscopies earlier”, in CNN‎:

     One insurance company, UnitedHealthcare, has announced that starting in June, members with commercial plans seeking gastroenterology endoscopy services – including colonoscopies – will be required to have “prior authorizations” for those services.

Hyponyms

• esophagogastroduodenoscopy
• gastroscopy
• colonoscopy
• For the rest, see Thesaurus:endoscopy

Derived terms

• chromoendoscopy
• echoendoscopy
• endoscopist
• fibroendoscopy
• gastroendoscopy
• immunoendoscopy
• laparoendoscopy
• microendoscopy
• miniendoscopy
• nasendoscopy
• nasoendoscopy
• neuroendoscopy
• otoendoscopy
• panendoscopy
• rhinoendoscopy
• sialendoscopy
• videoendoscopy

Related terms

• endoscope
• endoscopic

Translations

examination using an endoscope

Catalan: endoscòpia f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: endoskopie (cs) f Danish: endoskopi (da) c Finnish: tähystys (fi), endoskopia French: endoscopie (fr) f Galician: endoscopia (gl) f German: Endoskopie (de) f Greek: ενδοσκόπηση (el) f (endoskópisi) Icelandic: holsjárskoðun f, holspeglun f Indonesian: endoskopi (id) Italian: endoscopia (it) f Japanese: 内視鏡検査 (naishikyōkensa) Korean: 내시경술(內視鏡術) (naesigyeongsul) Malay: endoskopi Persian: آندوسکوپی (fa) (ândoskopi) Polish: endoskopia (pl) f Portuguese: endoscopia (pt) f Spanish: endoscopia (es) f, endoscopía (es) f Swedish: endoskopi (sv) c Ukrainian: ендоскопі́я f (endoskopíja)

Further reading

• endoscopy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia