peritoneoscopy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From peritoneo- + -scopy.
Noun[edit]
peritoneoscopy (countable and uncountable, plural peritoneoscopies)
- (medicine, dated) Examination of the abdominal cavity using a narrow instrument inserted through a small incision in the peritoneum.
- 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 508:
- Decker had just introduced his culdoscope and was advocating culdoscopy. I actually saw two peritoneoscopies during training but it had not achieved wide use.
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Further reading[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “peritoneoscopy”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.