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proctoscopes

proctoscopes is the plural of proctoscope.

Meaning of proctoscope

Noun

proctoscope (plural proctoscopes)

  1. A tube-like instrument, equipped with a light, used to examine the rectum.
    • Proctoscopy was then done and the child was cured promptly by small multiple incisions followed by dilation with the finger and rectal dilators. Perhaps we have "dwelt in a fool's paradise" in not having these patients examined with the proctoscope and treated proctologically and surgically. I have...1927, Joseph Brennemann, “Simple congenital anorectal stricture with megacolon in early infancy: report of six cases”, in Transactions of the Section on Diseases of Children of the American Medical...
    Synonyms:
    rectoscope

Questions about proctoscopes

What is proctoscopes the plural of?
Proctoscopes is the plural of proctoscope.

Words near proctoscopes in the dictionary

  1. proctorrhea
  2. proctors
  3. proctorship
  4. proctorships
  5. proctoscope
  6. proctoscopes
  7. proctoscopic
  8. proctoscopically
  9. proctoscopies
  10. proctoscopy
  11. proctosigmoidectomies

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