How to Use endoscope in a Sentence

endoscope

noun
  • There's a light attached to the end of the endoscope for easy viewing in hard-to-reach spots.
    — Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 10 June 2024
  • An endoscope has been fed down his throat to examine his small intestine.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Not having food or drink in your stomach helps prevent you from vomiting when the endoscope is placed in your throat.
    — Qin Rao, Verywell Health, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Debra then called John to come to Gulfport to try to remove the hook with an endoscope.
    — Debra Moore, The Conversation, 13 May 2021
  • During the procedure, your healthcare provider may be able to use an endoscope and laser to break up and remove the stone.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The researchers noted that a portable imaging system in the form of an endoscope could be ready in the next two years.
    — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2010
  • By the time the shot retracts, the camera has reimagined itself as the clinical eye of an endoscope.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Johns injects less than one-tenth of a teaspoon’s worth of the silk and hyaluronic acid mixture through a special catheter wired through his endoscope.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 28 June 2021
  • An endoscope is a thin, flexible instrument with a camera on the end, used to look inside the human body.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The endoscope is a slim, flexible tube equipped with a camera and a guidewire that leads a catheter into the digestive system.
    — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Once the bot has been deposited on the biofilm, its location is tracked in real time via both the endoscope and x-ray fluoroscopy.
    — New Atlas, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The final arm holds the endoscope that streams visuals to Stifelman's display screens.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
  • The company also makes non-heart devices such as endoscopes, a type of surgical camera.
    — Aisha Al-Muslim, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • With that in mind, some doctors might imagine an accelerator that is small enough to insert inside the body via an endoscope.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • This test involves inserting a long, flexible tube called an endoscope down your throat to see your esophagus and stomach.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Liu says that one of his most challenging projects was a wireless endoscope developed by a group of doctors from Illinois.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2025
  • When this happens, it can be retrieved by passing an endoscope into the stomach, grasping, and removing it.
    — Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In this case, the scientists used a new technique that combined laser imaging with a super-tiny, camera-toting probe called an endoscope.
    — Scott Berson, charlotteobserver, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The endoscope - an expensive tube with a camera on its end exploring your nether regions - shows a rocky, Mars-like terrain in the ileum.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2012
  • This involves inserting an endoscope (a thin, flexible tube with a camera) into the rectum.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 16 Feb. 2025
  • For endoscopic surgery, there will also be a rigid fiberoptic scope called an endoscope that delivers live images to a video monitor.
    — Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
  • The storied company has seen success in the medical equipment field, and controls much of the global endoscope market.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Asia, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The standard method involves inserting an endoscope — a flexible tube with a camera on one end — into a patient’s throat and threading it down to the stomach.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Scholars, surgeons and chemists have examined him in the centuries since, probing the mummy by microscope, endoscope and X-ray.
    — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The center’s hospital is one of the leading facilities in the state, with a surgical suite, x-ray room, blood work lab, endoscope and ultrasound.
    — Catie Wegman, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
  • In the former case, an endoscope gets inserted into the wrist-side incision and guides the severing of the ligament in the palm-side incision.
    — Scott Sundick, Verywell Health, 3 June 2024
  • Probing with an endoscope, the doctors visualized a worm at the point where the common bile duct joins with the pancreatic bile duct at the entrance to the small intestine.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2023
  • In the clip, the snake catcher uses an endoscope camera to locate the snake in one of the lodge's toilets and then takes the toilet apart to safely reach the snake and remove the reptile from the premises.
    — Kelli Bender, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Traditionally, a colonoscopy requires snaking a flexible tube with a camera — an endoscope — through the intestine to look for early signs of colon cancer.
    — James Gaines, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
  • An enteroscopy is used to examine the small intestine with a specialized endoscope that can reach further down your GI tract and give a better view of the area.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 13 Jan. 2022

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