bronchoscope
A bronchoscope is a thin, lighted instrument passed into the airway to directly view and sample tissue from the trachea and bronchi.
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206 matchescapsule endoscope
A capsule endoscope is a swallowed, camera equipped pill that photographs the digestive tract as it travels through the body.
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A thin, tube-like instrument used to examine the inside of the colon.
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The instrument never touches the patient, which surprises people expecting something closer to an internal camera.
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Rigid or flexible: the choice of instrument decides whether the look inside happens in a clinic room or an operating room.
Read definitiondark-field microscope
Turns the usual picture inside out by throwing away the direct light, so unstained living organisms glow against black.
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An electron microscope uses a focused beam of electrons instead of light to produce highly magnified images of extremely small structures.
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A camera on the end of a steerable tube, and increasingly the instrument that performs the operation rather than merely finding it.
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A fluoroscope is the imaging machine that produces continuous, real-time x-ray images, allowing clinicians to observe internal structures as they move.
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A thin, tube-like instrument used to examine the inside of the stomach.
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It is the eye of keyhole surgery: instruments enter through separate ports, and the whole team operates from one magnified screen image.
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A laryngoscope is a lighted instrument used to view the larynx, most often to guide placement of a breathing tube.
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The instrument behind nearly every pathology slide, and one whose limit is set by the wavelength of light itself.
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A thin, tube-like instrument used to examine the tissues and lymph nodes in the area between the lungs.
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Diagnosis of many conditions rests on magnification, because healthy tissue and diseased tissue often part company only at cellular scale.
Read definitionnasoscope
A thin tube-like instrument used to examine the inside of the nose.
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A handheld light and lens that turns the pupil into a window onto living blood vessels and nerve tissue.
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A thin, tube-like instrument used to remove tissue from inside the body.
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A thin, tube-like instrument used to examine the inside of the nose.
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A sigmoidoscope is a lighted, tube shaped instrument used to view and sometimes sample tissue from the rectum and lower colon.
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