laparoscopy

American  

[lap-uh-ros-kuh-pee] / ˌlæp əˈrɒs kə pi /

noun

Surgery.

• laparoscopies
  plural

1. examination of the abdominal cavity or performance of minor abdominal surgery using a laparoscope.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• laparoscopies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of laparoscopy

First recorded in 1850–55; laparo- + -scopy

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Example Sentences

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laparoscopy laparoscopies

Ms Brewster said that people can wait up to eight years for a diagnosis as it required a laparoscopy, a keyhole surgery procedure, to confirm the condition.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

My surgeon had given me the results of a laparoscopy, which revealed my fallopian tubes were blocked and sperm couldn’t get where it needed to be.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024

Think of it as brain surgery’s answer to laparoscopy: The approach allows the doctor to make repairs in the brain without having to open up a patient’s skull.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

Surgical options range from a minimally invasive laparoscopy procedure to more involved surgery that pulls the stomach back down into the abdomen.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2022

Is it worth one more laparoscopy, or have you really truly identified that there is nothing?

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2022

Overall, this happened up to 8 percent of the time in robotic operations and as much as 12 percent in laparoscopies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

In urologic and gynecologic surgeries, there was almost no difference between robot-assisted operations and laparoscopies in the number of operations that had to be switched to open procedures.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

D’Hooghe’s team carried out laparoscopies on 221 infertile women who had no obvious symptoms.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2015

Harms of pelvic examination include unnecessary laparoscopies or laparotomies, fear, anxiety, embarrassment, pain, and discomfort.

From Forbes ● Jul. 3, 2014

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