colonoscope

1. 1.

   an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum

   Broaderendoscope

Other forms of colonoscope

plural

colonoscopes·

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 colonoscope

What does colonoscope mean?

colonoscope means "an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum".

How many syllables are in colonoscope?

colonoscope has 4 syllables: co-lo-no-scope. The stress falls on "lo".

Is colonoscope a common word?

colonoscope is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.