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Definition: Endoscopy |
EndoscopyNoun1. Visual examination of the interior of a hollow body organ by use of an endoscope. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery performed on interior parts of the body. (references) |
Medicine | Visual examination of interior structures of the body with an endoscope. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Endoscopy |
| English words defined with "endoscopy": endoscopic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "endoscopy": Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde ♦ Endoscopy, Digestive System, Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal, Endosonography, European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ♦ Helicobacter heilmannii ♦ Upper GI Endoscopy. (references) |
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Pictured are instruments used in endoscopy. They are highlighted in an otherwise dark picture and lying on a textured cloth. Shown are flexible fibers, a small brush and a third instrument in some photos. The fibers transmit high intensity light through the endoscope shown. The brushes are used to take biopsies.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | ![]() | Gastric endoscopy ... uses a flexible fibre-optic ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Breitenbach.. | |
![]() | Therapeutic Endoscopy And Bleeding Ulcers.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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Health | Small bowel endoscopy, or enteroscopy, is a new procedure using a long endoscope. (references) | |
Barium x-rays, in general, are less accurate than endoscopy in locating bleeding sites. (references) | ||
Ménétrier's disease is diagnosed through x-rays, endoscopy, and biopsy of stomach tissue. (references) | ||
Business | Among these products are disposable surgical supplies, rental fees for surgical equipment, bone cement injection equipment for orthopedic surgery, trocar for endoscopy, certain products for percutaneous coronary artery stenting, syringes and needles. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Endoscopy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Endoscopy" is used about 351 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 351 | 15,240 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "endoscopy": European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ♦ Upper GI Endoscopy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "endoscopy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 内窥镜检察. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | endoskopi (organoscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | endoscopie (organoscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | esofagogastroduodenaalinen fiberoskopia (upper endoscopy), sylkirauhasten tähystys (salivary gland endoscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | endoscopie (f), endoscopie (incidental light endoscopy), organoscopie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Endoskopie (organoscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ενδοσκόπηση (introspection, organoscopy, soul searching), ενδοσκοπία (organoscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | endoscopia (organoscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | endoscopyay endoscopia (organoscopy). (various references) endoscopie. (various references) organoscopia (organoscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "endoscopy" (pronounced 'En*dos"co*py'): Abdominoscopy, AEolotropy, Aeroscopy, Anthroposcopy, Antitypy, Apanthropy, Aphilanthropy, Astroscopy, Auriscopy, Autotypy, balneotherapy, Bumblepuppy, Cerebroscopy, Chappy, Chirrupy, Choppy, Concupy, Courtepy, Cranioscopy, Cuppy, Cynanthropy, Daguerreotypy, Deuteroscopy, Ectopy, Electro-bioscopy, Electrotypy, Emmetropy, Episcopy, Floppy, fluoroscopy, Fool-happy, Galvanoscopy, gastroscopy, Geloscopy, Geoscopy, Happy, harpy, Heliotypy, Hemitropy, Hepatoscopy, Hieroscopy, Homotypy, horoscopy, hydrotherapy, Ichnoscopy, isotropy, Knappy, Laryngoscopy, Lithotypy, Loppy, lycanthropy, Magnetotherapy, Manoscopy, Metallotherapy, Metoposcopy, microscopy, misanthropy, Mishappy, Myopy, Nauscopy, Nyctalopy, Oneiroscopy, Onomatopy, Ophthalmoscopy, Organoscopy, Ornithoscopy, orthoepy, Otoscopy, Ouroscopy, Overcanopy, Overhappy, Pappy, Paspy, Philanthropy, Phonotypy, Phototherapy, Phototypy, Physianthropy, Pneumotherapy, Polariscopy, Preoccupy, Presbyopy, Psilanthropy, Psychotherapy, Radioscopy, Radiotherapy, Reoccupy, Retinoscopy, rhinoscopy, scrappy, Serotherapy, Serum-therapy, Shoppy, slippy, sloppy, snappy, soppy, Spattling-poppy, stereoscopy, Stereotypy, Stethoscopy, Synepy, Telescopy, Theanthropy, Theophilanthropy, therapy, thermotherapy, Thermotypy, Tittuppy, Tracheoscopy, Trappy, unhappy, Uranoscopy, Urethroscopy, Uroscopy, Zoanthropy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-n-o-o-p-s-y" | |
-2 letters: condoes, ecdyson, scooped, secondo, snooped, spooned, spooney, syncope. | |
-3 letters: codens, codons, condos, coneys, cooeys, cooped, copens, decoys, doyens, nodose, noosed, odeons, ponced, ponces, scoped, second, snoopy, spoony, synced. | |
-4 letters: coden, codes, codon, coeds, condo, coned, cones, coney, cooed, cooey, coons, coops, coped, copen, copes, copse, cosey, coyed, decos, decoy, donsy, dopes, dopey, doyen, dynes, nodes, noose, nosed, nosey, odeon, onces, opens, pends, peons, peony, poesy, ponce, ponds, pones, poods, poons, posed, scend, scone, scoop, scope, sepoy, snood, snoop, sonde, sooey, spend, spode, spoon, synod. | |
-5 letters: ceps, code, cods, coed, cone, cons, cony, coon, coop, coos, cope, cops, copy, cosy, coys, deco, dens, deny, deys, docs, does, done, dons, dope, dopy, dose, dyes, dyne, ends, eons, epos, espy, node, nods, noes, nope, nose, nosy, odes, once, ones, oops, oped, open, opes, oyes, pecs, peds, pend, pens, peon, peso, poco, pods, pond, pone, pons, pony, pood, poon, pose, posy, pyes, scop, send, sned, snye, sone, soon, spec, sped, syce, sync, syne, yens, yods, yond. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-n-o-o-p-s-y" | |
+4 letters: compendiously, postsecondary. | |
+5 letters: correspondency, endoscopically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 64 6F 73 63 6F 70 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100100 01101111 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n d o s c o p y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0064 006F 0073 0063 006F 0070 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398070818569818291 |
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