sigmoidoscopy
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Origin of sigmoidoscopy
First recorded in 1895–1900; sigmoidoscope + -y 3
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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
During a sigmoidoscopy, she recalled, her gastroenterologist said, “Oh no. I was not expecting this!”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 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
The United States Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed panel, recommends people age 50 to 75 get screened for colon cancer using colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy or fecal occult blood testing at regular intervals.
From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2012
The trials analyzed in the Lancet paper were done before the widespread introduction of screening tests like sigmoidoscopies and colonoscopies.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2010
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