flexible sigmoidoscopy

noun

An intestinal examination from anal insertion using a flexible tube that can follow the intestinal curves.

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Meanings

nounflexible sigmoidoscopy (plural flexible sigmoidoscopies)

plural flexible sigmoidoscopies

  1. medicineAn intestinal examination from anal insertion using a flexible tube that can follow the intestinal curves.

    He was the inventor of the procedure for flexible sigmoidoscopy using insufflation (inflating the sigmoid colon with air) that still is practiced today.

    2004, Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, page 83

Synonyms & antonyms

nounvisual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps

Similar
sigmoidoscopy
Broader
endoscopy
Also see
sigmoidoscopy

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