hysteroscopy

1. 1.

   visual examination of the uterus and uterine lining using an endoscope inserted through the vagina

   Broaderendoscopy

Other forms of hysteroscopy

plural

hysteroscopies·

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 hysteroscopy

What does hysteroscopy mean?

hysteroscopy means "visual examination of the uterus and uterine lining using an endoscope inserted through the vagina".

How many syllables are in hysteroscopy?

hysteroscopy has 5 syllables: hy-ste-ro-sco-py. The stress falls on "ro".

Is hysteroscopy a common word?

hysteroscopy 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.