ophthalmoscope
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- ophthalmoscopic adjective
- ophthalmoscopical adjective
Etymology
Origin of ophthalmoscope
First recorded in 1855–60; ophthalmo- + -scope
Example Sentences
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We have boxes with the essentials for consultations – oxygen saturation probes, blood pressure cuffs, thermometers and ophthalmoscopes.
From The Guardian
There was an itemized list of equipment he had to buy, including a stethoscope and ophthalmoscope, totaling nearly $1,000.
From New York Times
Dr. Glaucomflecken’s avatar was an ophthalmoscope dressed up with a top hat, cartoon eyes, mustache, and goatee.
From The Verge
The spider ophthalmoscope is one of the clearest accounts in the book of Land’s scientific ingenuity.
From Nature
In the 1840s and 1850s, he devised the ophthalmoscope — an instrument for examining the inside of the eye — and took innovative measurements of the speed of nerve impulses.
From Nature
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