sigmoidoscopy
Americannoun
plural
sigmoidoscopiesEtymology
Origin of sigmoidoscopy
First recorded in 1895–1900; sigmoidoscope + -y 3
Example Sentences
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Experts recommend that most people start screening with a colonoscopy — or a similar procedure called a flexible sigmoidoscopy — at age 45.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023
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
He performed a sigmoidoscopy, a procedure that uses a scope to examine the lower part of the colon.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022
There was no difference between the two groups in deaths from proximal colon cancer, which is cancer higher up in the intestines and beyond the reach of the sigmoidoscopy scope.
From Reuters • May 21, 2012
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