peritoneoscope

plural peritoneoscopes

1. datedmedicineA narrow medical instrument used in peritoneoscopy.

   The same thing may be said about the peritoneoscope. Peritoneoscopy for pelvic lesions has some value and yet its risks are rather great in the patients that have enough pelvic pathology to indicate its use, just as in the use of the culdoscope.

   1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 511