English

Performance of a bronchoscopy

Noun

bronchoscopy ‎(plural bronchoscopies)

1. (medicine) A technique for viewing the bronchi using a flexible instrument called a bronchoscope
   • 2007 July 4, Lawrence K. Altman, “Traveler’s TB Not as Severe as Officials Thought”, in New York Times:

     The center reported in May that its tests showed that Mr. Speaker had XDR-TB, based on cultures from a lung procedure, a bronchoscopy, at a hospital in Atlanta.

Related terms

• bronchoscope
• bronchoscopic

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See also

• bronchoscopy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia