laryngoscopen.
/ləˈrɪŋɡəskəʊp/, /laˈrɪŋɡəskəʊp/, U.S. /ləˈrɪŋɡəˌskoʊp/, /ləˈrɪndʒəˌskoʊp/ An apparatus which by a combination of mirrors enables an observer to inspect a patient's larynx.
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speculum1598
diopter1706
otoscope1853
stomatoscope1853
laparoscope1855
cardioscope1856
sphygmoscope1856
stereoscope1857
laryngoscope1860
pharyngoscope1861
rhinoscope1861
autolaryngoscope1863
vaginoscope1863
oesophagoscope1868
photophore1871
rectoscope1871
endoscope1872
autoscope1873
glottiscope1876
polyscope1878
duck-bill speculum1879
tracer1882
diaphanoscope1883
gastroscope1888
cystoscope1889
kinetoskotoscope1896
photoscope1896
proctoscope1896
bronchoscope1899
sigmoidoscope1900
arthroscope1925
peritoneoscope1939
toposcope1951
fibrescope1954
mediastinoscope1966
fetoscope1968
angioscope1980
1860 Med. Times & Gaz. I. 453 The highly practical results obtained on the Continent by the use of the Laryngoscope.
1864 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. (1868) 2nd Ser. iii. 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).
1880 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose I. 213 There is no trace of a laryngoscope before the middle of the eighteenth century.
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