How to Use endoscope in a Sentence

endoscope

noun
Definition of endoscopenext
  • To fabricate the tiny endoscope, the team 3D-printed the lenses, which are too small to see with the naked eye.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
  • Debra then called John to come to Gulfport to try to remove the hook with an endoscope.
    — Debra Moore, The Conversation, 13 May 2021
  • By the time the shot retracts, the camera has reimagined itself as the clinical eye of an endoscope.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The researchers noted that a portable imaging system in the form of an endoscope could be ready in the next two years.
    — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2010
  • Johns injects less than one-tenth of a teaspoon’s worth of the silk and hyaluronic acid mixture through a special catheter wired through his endoscope.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 28 June 2021
  • After endoscope and MRI exams, 34 turned out to have cancer.
    — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The endoscope - an expensive tube with a camera on its end exploring your nether regions - shows a rocky, Mars-like terrain in the ileum.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2012
  • An endoscope has been fed down his throat to examine his small intestine.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • An enteroscopy is used to examine the small intestine with a specialized endoscope that can reach further down your GI tract and give a better view of the area.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Probing with an endoscope, the doctors visualized a worm at the point where the common bile duct joins with the pancreatic bile duct at the entrance to the small intestine.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2023
  • In this case, the scientists used a new technique that combined laser imaging with a super-tiny, camera-toting probe called an endoscope.
    — Scott Berson, charlotteobserver, 27 Mar. 2018
  • With that in mind, some doctors might imagine an accelerator that is small enough to insert inside the body via an endoscope.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Three times, doctors tried to stop the bleeding with an endoscope — a flexible tube that can be used to see and treat internal bleeding — to no avail, daughter Dottie Glatz said.
    — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Finally, the monkeys could acquire the use of sensory tool-a sort of endoscope attached to a rake-to explore the experimental space to find and retrieve the food.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2011
  • Scholars, surgeons and chemists have examined him in the centuries since, probing the mummy by microscope, endoscope and X-ray.
    — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The center’s hospital is one of the leading facilities in the state, with a surgical suite, x-ray room, blood work lab, endoscope and ultrasound.
    — Catie Wegman, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
  • These cables—similar to the imaging cables in some endoscopes—contain a bundle of fiber cores that line up with the on-chip arrays, giving each microLED its own light path.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2022
  • After learning of the void, researchers used an endoscope to collect images of the corridor on February 24.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The company also makes non-heart devices such as endoscopes, a type of surgical camera.
    — Aisha Al-Muslim, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • Tissue is lit by the endoscope's lasers and the fluorescent patterns it then reflects are analyzed by sensors.
    — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The sensor is meant to be an alternative to the endoscope — a long, thin tube with a camera that is typically threaded through a person’s mouth and throat, down into their digestive tract.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The injection is carried out using an endoscope, a tube-like device that is equipped with a syringe to inject the toxin directly into the stomach muscle after snaking down the mouth and throat.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The heel spurs can then be cut away in a secondary procedure, flush to the bone.3 Endoscopic reduction: For this procedure, a tiny incision (usually about an inch in length) is made on the side of the heel to insert the endoscope.
    — Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
  • In this procedure, a long, flexible camera called an endoscope is inserted through the mouth, and goes through the esophagus, stomach and small intestine.
    — Douglas G. Adler, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2019
  • For endoscopic surgery, there will also be a rigid fiberoptic scope called an endoscope that delivers live images to a video monitor.
    — Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
  • To figure out what’s going on, doctors will likely do an imaging test like a CT scan or ultrasound, tests to check the state of your bile ducts, blood tests, or use a thin, flexible tool known as an endoscope to evaluate your stones.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Traditionally, a colonoscopy requires snaking a flexible tube with a camera — an endoscope — through the intestine to look for early signs of colon cancer.
    — James Gaines, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The paper, published last month in the American Journal of Infection Control, underscores the infection risk posed by a wide range of endoscopes commonly used to peer deep into the body.
    — Chad Terhune, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The endoscope goes down your esophagus and gives your doctor a good look at your throat, stomach, and duodenum (the beginning of your small intestine) to see if there is any inflammation or bleeding.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The company also makes nonheart devices such as endoscopes, a type of surgical camera.
    — Denise Roland, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018

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