flexible sigmoidoscopy

noun

noun

Medicine, Sciences An intestinal examination from anal insertion using a flexible tube that can follow the intestinal curves.

He was the inventor of the procedure for flexible sigmoidoscopy using insufflation (inflating the sigmoid colon with air) that still is practiced today.2004, Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, page 83:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.