Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tubular instrument used for inspection of the sigmoid colon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of speculum used in examination of the sigmoid flexure.
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- noun medicine An
instrument used for examining thesigmoid colon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon
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Examples
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A sigmoidoscope is a slender, lighted tube about the thickness of a finger.
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The doctor inserts a long, flexible, lighted tube called a sigmoidoscope, or scope, into the anus and slowly guides it through the rectum and into the sigmoid colon.
Find Me A Cure 2009
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At the Stanford University School of Medicine (a place, as it happens, where I once underwent an absolutely hilarious procedure with a sigmoidoscope), the grim-faced researchers showed 10 men and 10 women a sample of 70 black-and-white cartoons and got them to rate the gags on a "funniness scale."
Why Women Aren't Funny Hitchens, Christopher 2007
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At the Stanford University School of Medicine (a place, as it happens, where I once underwent an absolutely hilarious procedure with a sigmoidoscope), the grim-faced researchers showed 10 men and 10 women a sample of 70 black-and-white cartoons and got them to rate the gags on a "funniness scale."
Why Women Aren't Funny Hitchens, Christopher 2007
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Well, let me first explain what a sigmoidoscope is: a fiber-optic tubular instrument inserted through the anus for examining the interior of the rectum and sigmoid colon.
Assholes, Dad's ass, and the ass of Cupid barbylon 2001
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Well, let me first explain what a sigmoidoscope is: a fiber-optic tubular instrument inserted through the anus for examining the interior of the rectum and sigmoid colon.
Assholes, Dad's ass, and the ass of Cupid barbylon 2001
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The last patient was wheeled in ten minutes later, and Mr Gore-Symes, perched on a stool, applied his trained eye to the sigmoidoscope.
Cruise To A Wedding Neels, Betty 1974
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If you are in buena park and much foods in the bathroom organizers top toilet tank and there is everything in your drain, urinated taste pipes, plugged toilet, triggered truck - don't sigmoidoscope around with wider incorporated plumbers.
Wii-volution 2010
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If you are in buena park and much foods in the bathroom organizers top toilet tank and there is everything in your drain, urinated taste pipes, plugged toilet, triggered truck - don't sigmoidoscope around with wider incorporated plumbers.
Wii-volution 2010
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In a sigmoidoscopy, a sigmoidoscope is inserted through the anus and rectum and into the sigmoid colon.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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