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laryngoscope|ləˈrɪŋgəskəʊp| [f. laryngo- + -scope.] An apparatus which by a combination of mirrors enables an observer to inspect a patient's larynx.
1860Med. Times & Gaz. I. 453 The highly practical results obtained on the Continent by the use of the Laryngoscope. 1864Max Müller Sci. Lang. Ser. ii. iii. (1868) 109 The newly-invented laryngoscope (a small looking-glass, which enables the observer to see as far as the bifurcation of the windpipe and the bronchial tubes). 1880M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose I. 213 There is no trace of a laryngoscope before the middle of the eighteenth century. |