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ureteroscopy

ureteroscopy noun: visual inspection of the ureter by means of a ureteroscope.

Noun

ureteroscopy (countable and uncountable, plural ureteroscopies)

  1. Visual inspection of the ureter by means of a ureteroscope.
    • In accordance, the five completely normal ureteroscopies in our study were performed in patients with small filling defects on CTU.2015 July 25, Shay Golan, Andrei Nadu, David Lifshitz, “The role of diagnostic ureteroscopy in the era of computed tomography urography”, in BMC Urology, volume 15, →DOI

Forms of ureteroscopy

pluralureteroscopies

Origin of ureteroscopy

From ureter + -scopy.

Words formed from ureteroscopy

Questions about ureteroscopy

What does ureteroscopy mean?
Ureteroscopy means visual inspection of the ureter by means of a ureteroscope.
What part of speech is ureteroscopy?
Ureteroscopy is a noun.
What is the plural of ureteroscopy?
The plural of ureteroscopy is ureteroscopies.

Words near ureteroscopy in the dictionary

  1. ureteroscopic
  2. ureteroscopically
  3. ureteroscopies
  4. ureteroscopist
  5. ureteroscopists
  6. ureteroscopy
  7. ureterosigmoidostomies
  8. ureterosigmoidostomy
  9. ureterostenosis
  10. ureterostomies
  11. ureterostomy

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