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bronchoscope
noun[ C ]
medical specializeduk /ˈbrɒŋ.kə.skəʊp/ us /ˈbrɑːŋ.kə.skoʊp/
a piece of medical equipment that doctors use to look at the inside of someone's lungs. It has a long thin tube with a light at the end that can go through someone's nose or mouth and down their throat to their lungs:
This may require direct visualization of the airways with a flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope.
The doctor continues to advance the instrument to the trachea, examining each area as the bronchoscope passes.
To obtain a sample of a tumour from one of the large airways, the doctor first uses a bronchoscope to examine the lining of these organs.
The practitioner may use either a rigid bronchoscope or flexible bronchoscope.
Tiny instruments may be passed through the bronchoscope to take tissue samples during the bronchoscopy.
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