laparoscopy

English

Etymology

From laparo- (“flank”) +‎ -scopy, after German Laparoskopie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lapəˈɹɒskəpi/

Noun

laparoscopy (plural laparoscopies)

1. (medicine) Examination of the loins or abdomen, now specifically examination or surgery on the peritoneal cavity using a laparoscope.

Synonyms

• laparoscopic surgery

Derived terms

• hydrolaparoscopy

Related terms

• laparoscope
• laparoscopic
• laparoscopist

Translations

examination or surgery on the peritoneal cavity

• Afrikaans: laparoskopie
• Arabic: تنظير البطن m (tanzir al-batn)
• Armenian: լապարասկոպիա (laparaskopia)
• Catalan: laparoscòpia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腹腔鏡檢查／腹腔镜检查 (fùqiāngjìng jiǎnchá)

• Czech: laparoskopie (cs) f
• Danish: laparoskopi c
• Dutch: laparoscopie (nl) f
• Finnish: laparoskopia
• French: laparoscopie (fr) f
• Galician: laparoscopia f, laparoscopía f
• German: Bauchspiegelung f, Laparoskopie (de) f
• Greek: λαπαροσκόπηση (el) f (laparoskópisi), λαπαροσκοπία (el) f (laparoskopía)
• Hebrew: לַפָּרוֹסְקוֹפְּיָה (he) f (laparoskopia)
• Hungarian: laparoszkópia (hu)
• Icelandic: kviðsjáraðgerð f
• Ido: laparoskopio (io)
• Indonesian: laparoskopi (id)
• Irish: laparascópacht f
• Japanese: 腹腔鏡 (ふくくうきょう, fukukōkyō)
• Kannada: ಉದರದರ್ಶಕ (udaradarśaka)
• Latvian: laparoskopija f
• Lithuanian: laparoskopija f
• Macedonian: лапароскопија f (laparoskopija)
• Marathi: लॅपरोस्कोपी (lĕproskopī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: laparoskopi m

  Nynorsk: laparoskopi m

• Polish: laparoskopia (pl) f
• Portuguese: laparoscopia (pt) f
• Romanian: laparoscopie (ro) f
• Russian: лапароскопи́я (ru) f (laparoskopíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лапароско̀пија f

  Roman: laparoskòpija f

• Sinhalese: ප්‍රකාශතන්තුරේක්ෂය (prakāśatanturēkṣaya)
• Slovak: laparoskopia f
• Slovene: laparoskopija f
• Spanish: laparoscopia f, laparoscopía f
• Swedish: (examination) laparoskopi c, (surgery) laparoskopisk kirurgi c
• Tamil: லப்பிரச்கொப்பி (lappirackoppi)
• Turkish: laparoskopi
• Ukrainian: лапароскопі́я f (laparoskopíja)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: лапароскопия (laparoskopiya)

  Roman: laparoskopiya

• Vietnamese: nội soi ổ bụng

Further reading

• laparoscopic surgery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia