flexible sigmoidoscopy

English

Noun

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.