auroscope

1. 1.

   medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane)

   Synonymsotoscopeauriscope

   Broadermedical instrument

Other forms of auroscope

plural

auroscopes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about auroscope

What does auroscope mean?

auroscope means "medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane)".

How many syllables are in auroscope?

auroscope has 3 syllables: au-ro-scope. The stress falls on "au".

What is another word for auroscope?

Close synonyms include otoscope, auriscope. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is auroscope a common word?

auroscope is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.