flexible sigmoidoscopy

1. 1.

   visual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps

   Synonymssigmoidoscopy

   Broaderendoscopy

Questions about flexible sigmoidoscopy

What does flexible sigmoidoscopy mean?

flexible sigmoidoscopy means "visual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps".

What is another word for flexible sigmoidoscopy?

Close synonyms include sigmoidoscopy. 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 sigmoidoscopy a common word?

flexible sigmoidoscopy 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.