bronchoscopy
nounEtymology From broncho- + -scopy.
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Medicine, Sciences A technique for viewing the bronchi using a flexible instrument called a bronchoscope.
- 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.2007 July 4, Lawrence K. Altman, “Traveler’s TB Not as Severe as Officials Thought”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- bronchoscopical, bronchoscopist, fibrobronchoscopy, laryngobronchoscopy, laryngotracheobronchoscopy, tracheobronchoscopy, videobronchoscopy
- Related terms
- bronchoscope, bronchoscopic