bronchoscopy

bronchoscopy

English

Performance of a bronchoscopy

Etymology

From broncho- +‎ -scopy.

Noun

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:

     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.

Related terms

• bronchoscope
• bronchoscopic

Derived terms

• fibrobronchoscopy
• tracheobronchoscopy
• videobronchoscopy

 

Translations

technique

Azerbaijani: bronxoskopiya Basque: bronkoskopia Catalan: broncoscòpia f Czech: bronchoskopie f Dutch: bronchoscopie (nl) f Finnish: bronkoskopia (fi) French: bronchoscopie (fr) f German: Bronchoskopie f Greek: βρογχοσκόπηση (el) f (vronchoskópisi) Hebrew: ברונכוסקופיה‎ (he) Indonesian: bronkoskopi Irish: broncascópacht f

Italian: broncoscopia (it) f Norwegian: bronkoskopi Occitan: bronquioscopia f Polish: bronchoskopia (pl) f Portuguese: broncoscopia f Russian: бронхоскопи́я (ru) f (bronxoskopíja) Slovene: bronhoskopija f Spanish: broncoscopia f, broncoscopía f Swedish: bronkoskopi c Turkish: bronkoskopi Ukrainian: бронхоскопія f (bronxoskopija) Uzbek: bronxoskopiya (uz)

See also

• bronchoscopy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia