endoscope
- n a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery
- Or they can be retrieved by a wire basket threaded through the endoscope and extracted from the mouth of the sedated patient.
- As contractions move it along, the mini-endoscope transmits detailed color images to a belt worn by the patient; then they're downloaded to a computer.
- After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that .