colonoscopy

English

Etymology

From colon +‎ -o- +‎ -scopy.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑləˈnɑskəpi/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

colonoscopy (countable and uncountable, plural colonoscopies)

1. (medicine) The examination of the colon using a colonoscope.
   • 1985, William S. Howland, Graziano C. Carlon, editors, Critical Care of the Cancer Patient, Year Book Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 100:

     Colonoscopy can be expected to identify lesions missed on barium enema, such as small polyps and angiodysplasia. […] Often the preparation of the colon is not ideal, and this can add to the difficulty of performing colonoscopy and interpreting the findings. Tedesco and colleagues reported the results of colonoscopy in 258 patients with rectal bleeding.

Hypernyms

• endoscopy

Derived terms

• ileocolonoscopy
• pancolonoscopy

Translations

examination of the colon using a colonoscope

• Arabic: تَنْظِير الْقُولُون (ar) m (tanẓīr al-qūlūn)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: каланаскапія f (kalanaskapija), калонаскапія f (kalónaskapija)
• Catalan: colonoscòpia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大腸鏡檢查／大肠镜检查 (daai⁶ coeng⁴ geng³ gim² caa⁴), 大腸鏡／大肠镜 (daai⁶ coeng⁴ geng³)

  Mandarin: 大腸鏡檢查／大肠镜检查 (dàchángjìng jiǎnchá), 大腸鏡／大肠镜 (dàchángjìng)

• Dutch: colonoscopie (nl) f
• Finnish: paksusuolentähystys, kolonoskopia (fi)
• French: coloscopie (fr) f, colonoscopie (fr) f
• German: Koloskopie (de) f, Darmspiegelung (de) f, Colonoskopie f
• Greek: κολονοσκόπηση (el) f (kolonoskópisi)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: béltükrözés (hu)
• Icelandic: ristilspeglun m
• Italian: coloscopia f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kolonoskopia (pl) f
• Portuguese: colonoscopia (pt) f
• Russian: колоноскопи́я (ru) f (kolonoskopíja)
• Spanish: colonoscopia f
• Swedish: koloskopi (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kolonoskopi
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: nội soi đại tràng

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “colonoscopy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• colonoscopy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia