sigmoidoscopy
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of sigmoidoscopy
First recorded in 1895–1900; sigmoidoscope + -y 3
Example Sentences
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And unlike a sigmoidoscopy, a colonoscopy also examines the right side of the colon, where polyps could hide and turn into cancer, too.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2022
These could be a colonoscopy - a procedure which uses a camera inside a long tube to look inside the whole bowel - or a flexible sigmoidoscopy, which looks at part of it.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2022
All participants had a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy to check for colon polyps, which can develop into cancer if not removed, sometime before mid-2007.
From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2012
After about 12 years of follow-up, there were 21 percent fewer cases of colon cancer and 26 percent fewer deaths from the disease in the group assigned to get sigmoidoscopy.
From Seattle Times • May 21, 2012
Tests such as sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy can find premalignant polyps.
From Washington Post
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