bronchoscopy

Etymology

From broncho- + -scopy.

noun

  1. (medicine) 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. July 4, 2007, Lawrence K. Altman, “Traveler’s TB Not as Severe as Officials Thought”, in New York Times

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