flexible sigmoidoscopy

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flexible sigmoidoscopy (plural flexible sigmoidoscopies)

  1. (medicine) An intestinal examination from anal insertion using a flexible tube that can follow the intestinal curves.
    • 2004, Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, page 83:
      He was the inventor of the procedure for flexible sigmoidoscopy using insufflation (inflating the sigmoid colon with air) that still is practiced today.
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