bronchoscopy
English
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Performance of a bronchoscopy
Etymology
From broncho- + -scopy.
Noun
bronchoscopy (plural bronchoscopies)
- (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:
- 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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Related terms
- bronchoscope
- bronchoscopic
Derived terms
- fibrobronchoscopy
- tracheobronchoscopy
- videobronchoscopy
Translations
technique
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See also
bronchoscopy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia