proctoscopy

1. 1.

   visual examination of the rectum and the end of the colon by means of a proctoscope

   Broaderendoscopy

Other forms of proctoscopy

plural

proctoscopies·

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 proctoscopy

What does proctoscopy mean?

proctoscopy means "visual examination of the rectum and the end of the colon by means of a proctoscope".

How many syllables are in proctoscopy?

proctoscopy has 4 syllables: proc-to-sco-py. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /ˌpɹɔkˈtɑskoʊˌpi/.

Is proctoscopy a common word?

proctoscopy 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.

What rhymes with proctoscopy?

21 words rhyme with proctoscopy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.