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Definition: Proctoscope |
ProctoscopeNoun1. An endoscope for examining the rectum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Proctoscope" is a common misspelling or typo for: bronchoscope. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A short, rigid metal tube used to look into the rectum and anus. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Proctoscope |
| English words defined with "proctoscope": proctoscopy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "proctoscope": doctor, chiropracti. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Proctoscope" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (proctoscope). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Physicians diagnose proctitis by looking inside the rectum with a proctoscope or a sigmoidoscope. (references) | |
Closer evaluation of the rectum for hemorrhoids requires an exam with an anoscope, a hollow, lighted tube useful for viewing internal hemorrhoids, or a proctoscope, useful for more completely examining the entire rectum. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Proctoscope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Proctoscope" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
proctoscope | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "proctoscope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منظار للمراقبة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ректоскоп. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | proctoskop, rektoskop (balloon rectal probe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | proctoscoop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | proctoscope. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Proktoskop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρωκτοσκόπιο Gabriel (Gabriel proctoscope). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פרוקטוסקופ, ראי חלחולת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | végbéltükör. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | proctoscopio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | octoscopepray rectoscópio. (various references) ректоскоп. (various references) proktoskop. (various references) proctoscopio. (various references) proktoscope. (various references) proktoskop. (various references) ректоскоп. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-o-o-o-p-p-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: otoscope, prospect. | |
-4 letters: coopers, cooters, coppers, copters, oospore, opposer, poorest, propose, prosect, rococos, scooper, scooter, stooper, stopper, toppers. | |
-5 letters: cooers, cooper, coopts, cooter, copers, copper, copter, corpse, corset, coster, escort, oppose, porose, poster, presto, rectos, repots, respot, rococo, roscoe, scoter, scroop, sector, soccer, stoper, topers, topper, torose, troops, tropes. | |
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