bronchoscopy

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Performance of a bronchoscopy

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From broncho- +‎ -scopy.

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bronchoscopy (plural bronchoscopies)

  1. (medicine) A technique for viewing the bronchi using a flexible instrument called a bronchoscope.
    • 2007 July 4, Lawrence K. Altman, “Traveler’s TB Not as Severe as Officials Thought”, in New York Times[1]:
      The center reported in May that its tests showed that Mr. Speaker had XDR-TB, based on cultures from a lung procedure, a bronchoscopy, at a hospital in Atlanta.

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