fibrescopen.
/ˈfʌɪbəskəʊp/ A fibre-optic device used to view inaccessible internal structure, esp. in medicine to examine passages in the body.
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cardioscope1856
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polyscope1878
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gastroscope1888
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peritoneoscope1939
toposcope1951
fibrescope1954
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angioscope1980
1954 Hopkins & Kapany in Nature 2 Jan. 39/2 An optical unit has been devised which will convey optical images along a flexible axis. The unit comprises a bundle of fibres of glass, or other transparent material, and it therefore appears appropriate to introduce the term ‘fibrescope’ to denote it.
1961 Lancet 20 May 1074/1 The fiberscope superficially resembles a conventional gastro~scope... The shaft of the instrument contains the glass fibre bundle which transmits the image to the eye-piece and is completely flexible throughout its entire length.
1961 New Scientist 1 June 494 A new device for viewing the lower part of the gullet, stomach, duodenum and a foot of the small intestine..known as the fiberscope.
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