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A camera goes spelunking in you so a surgeon doesn't have to.
means A medical procedure that uses a thin tube with a camera and light to look directly inside the body's organs or cavities, often through a natural opening or a small incision.
from Built from Greek parts: 'endon' meaning within, and 'skopein' meaning to look at or examine — the same root that gives us 'scope' and 'telescope.' So the word is literally 'looking within,' coined in the 19th century as doctors began engineering ways to peer past skin without cutting it open.
- origin
- from Greek endon, meaning within, and skopein, to look
- first attempt
- 1806, a candle-lit tube down a patient's throat
- fun fact
- you remember none of it, thanks to propofol
- not surgery
- usually day-case, no scalpel, just a very invasive selfie stick