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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A slender, tubular endoscope that is inserted through an incision in the abdominal wall and used for viewing or performing minor surgery in the abdominal or pelvic cavities.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A thin endoscope that may be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a slender endoscope inserted through an incision in the abdominal wall in order to examine the abdominal organs or to perform minor surgery

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek laparā, flank (from feminine of laparos, soft) + –scope.]

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laparo- +‎ scope

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