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endoscopy

American  
[en-dos-kuh-pee] / ɛnˈdɒs kə pi /

noun

  • endoscopies
    plural
  1. an examination by means of an endoscope.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of endoscopy

endo- + -scopy


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"Often, the lesion can be accessed from the outside or inside, for instance, via image-guided biopsy or endoscopy, but sometimes this is not possible," Venuta said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Gastrointestinal endoscopy remains an attractive growth market, Jefferies says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

NHS Frimley Health Foundation Trust paid two consultants in its endoscopy department, which provides internal examinations, more than £180,000 each in overtime, to tackle the backlog in treatment.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024

"Aspiration during or after endoscopy can be devastating," Rezaie said.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024

There were sites for the spotlights and the dresses and the endoscopy kits, and she sent them in flurries.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

Prof Nouraei developed a technique during the Covid-19 pandemic to perform awake endoscopies to give patients like Natalie steroid injections.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

The hospital, which opened in 2008, could hold its own against any modern medical facility for humans, boasting X-ray and gene-sequencing machines and equipment for performing endoscopies and processing blood, fecal and kidney samples.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Officials compared the prices they paid for five common procedures — arthroscopies, cataract surgeries, colonoscopies, upper GIs, and endoscopies — at hospitals versus free-standing surgery centers.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022

Dubin, 55, gets annual colonoscopies, endoscopies, and imaging scans, which caught a third cancer, in his kidney.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2022

More can be ultimately accomplished, and less reaction will follow short endoscopies repeated at proper intervals than in one long procedure.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

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