ENDOSCOPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endoscopy mean? 

• ENDOSCOPY (noun)
  The noun ENDOSCOPY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ENDOSCOPY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDOSCOPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visual examination of the interior of a hollow body organ by use of an endoscope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("endoscopy" is a kind of...):

examination; scrutiny (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "endoscopy"):

celioscopy (endoscopic examination of the abdomen through the abdominal wall)

colonoscopy (visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation)

culdoscopy (endoscopic examination of a woman's pelvic organs by the insertion of a culdoscope through the vagina)

gastroscopy (visual examination of the stomach by means of a gastroscope inserted through the esophagus)

hysteroscopy (visual examination of the uterus and uterine lining using an endoscope inserted through the vagina)

proctoscopy (visual examination of the rectum and the end of the colon by means of a proctoscope)

flexible sigmoidoscopy; sigmoidoscopy (visual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps)

Derivation:

endoscopic (of or relating to endoscopy)

 Context examples 

The test used most often to look for the cause of GI bleeding is called endoscopy.

(Gastrointestinal Bleeding, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Your health care provider may use x-rays, lab tests, and an upper endoscopy to diagnose the cause.

(Indigestion, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Your doctor also may look inside your stomach and duodenum by doing an endoscopy or x-ray.

(Peptic Ulcer, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Endoscopy is a procedure that lets your doctor look inside your body.

(Endoscopy, NIH)

Also called DBE and double balloon endoscopy.

(Double balloon enteroscopy, NCI Dictionary)

It usually presents as a mucosal nodule and is detected incidentally by endoscopy.

(Colorectal Benign Granular Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called double balloon endoscopy and double balloon enteroscopy.

(DBE, NCI Dictionary)

TNM clinical findings are based on information obtained prior to the first definitive treatment through physical examination, diagnostic imaging, endoscopy, biopsy or laboratory testing.

(Breast Cancer Clinical TNM Finding v6, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called upper endoscopy.

(Gastroscopy, NCI Dictionary)

There are many different kinds of endoscopy.

(Endoscopy, NIH)