flexible sigmoidoscope

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   an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon

   Synonymssigmoidoscope

   Broaderendoscope

Questions about flexible sigmoidoscope

What does flexible sigmoidoscope mean?

flexible sigmoidoscope means "an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon".

What is another word for flexible sigmoidoscope?

Close synonyms include sigmoidoscope. 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 flexible sigmoidoscope a common word?

flexible sigmoidoscope 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.