colonoscopy

colonoscopy

English

Etymology

From colon +‎ -o- +‎ -scopy.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑləˈnɑskəpi/

Noun

colonoscopy (plural colonoscopies)

1. (medicine) The examination of the colon using a colonoscope.

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: paksusuolen tähystys, 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 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 (2001–2023), “colonoscopy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• colonoscopy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia