English edit

Etymology edit

From peritoneo- +‎ -scope.

Noun edit

peritoneoscope (plural peritoneoscopes)

  1. (medicine, dated) A narrow medical instrument used in peritoneoscopy.
    • 1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 511:
      The same thing may be said about the peritoneoscope. Peritoneoscopy for pelvic lesions has some value and yet its risks are rather great in the patients that have enough pelvic pathology to indicate its use, just as in the use of the culdoscope.