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A procedure letting doctors view the airways directly, often uncomfortable but usually performed with sedation to ease distress.
means A medical procedure in which a thin, flexible tube with a camera is passed down the throat to examine the airways and lungs.
from Built from Greek bronkhos, 'windpipe,' plus -skopia, 'to look at or examine,' the same ending found in telescope and microscope — so, literally, 'looking into the windpipe.' The device itself is a 20th-century invention, but the naming logic is pure classical Greek: whenever doctors needed a word for 'peering inside,' they reached for -scopy.
- invented by
- doctor who removed a pork bone, 1897
- route taken
- through mouth or nose into the airways
- common use
- finds tumors, infections, and lodged objects
- sedation level
- you are awake-ish, you will not care