Definitions
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- noun an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus
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We had no knives, and no artery forceps, and not a stitch of catgut; but we had an oesophagoscope, and the very latest possible pattern of cystoscope, and a marvellous set of tools for plating fractures.
A Surgeon in Belgium Henry Sessions Souttar 1919
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