Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An instrument consisting of a tube or speculum equipped with a light, used to examine the rectum.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument used in the examination of the rectum; a rectal speculum.
Wiktionary
- n. a tube-like instrument, equipped with a light, used to examine the rectum; a rectoscope
WordNet 3.0
- n. an endoscope for examining the rectum
Etymologies
- Greek prōktos, anus + -scope. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The proctoscope remained in a fabric sack suspended from his neck.”
“Having been on the receiving end of the MMS proctoscope, I speak with experience.”
“An Article as Proctoscope for Dick Cheney and Richard Cohen yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'An Article as Proctoscope for Dick Cheney and Richard Cohen'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The only thing we can do with an article by Richard Cohen about how Dick Cheney might be right about torture, is to take it apart, re-assemble it as a proctoscope, lubricate it and stick it up both their asses.”
“It's long past time when only Democrats should be subject to a political proctoscope while Republicans get a mere skin-deep overview.”
“George Will's latest recto-cranial inversion yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'George Will\'s latest recto-cranial inversion'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: George Will\'s economic pronouncements in his July 17 Washington Post article, "Committing capitalism," could have only come from using his head as a proctoscope.”
“George Will has been using his head as a proctoscope.”
“He told NEWSWEEK that the Enron Task Force had "stuck a proctoscope up inside [Lay's] finances to come up with this bizarre, bulls -- t theory that's without precedent.”
“Time will tell whether a telescope will help Thaksin escape the proctoscope treatment.”
“And as far as Katie Couric goes she should just stop the tease and show us the whole proctoscope ‘ Fantastic Voyage’.”
“For some time now I have had the sneaking suspicion that Cameron is a walking proctoscope.”
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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