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

  • noun A tubular instrument used for inspection of the sigmoid colon.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A form of speculum used in examination of the sigmoid flexure.

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  • noun medicine An instrument used for examining the sigmoid colon.

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  • noun an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon

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Examples

  • A sigmoidoscope is a slender, lighted tube about the thickness of a finger.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • The doctor inserts a long, flexible, lighted tube called a sigmoidoscope, or scope, into the anus and slowly guides it through the rectum and into the sigmoid colon.

    Find Me A Cure 2009

  • At the Stanford University School of Medicine (a place, as it happens, where I once underwent an absolutely hilarious procedure with a sigmoidoscope), the grim-faced researchers showed 10 men and 10 women a sample of 70 black-and-white cartoons and got them to rate the gags on a "funniness scale."

    Why Women Aren't Funny Hitchens, Christopher 2007

  • At the Stanford University School of Medicine (a place, as it happens, where I once underwent an absolutely hilarious procedure with a sigmoidoscope), the grim-faced researchers showed 10 men and 10 women a sample of 70 black-and-white cartoons and got them to rate the gags on a "funniness scale."

    Why Women Aren't Funny Hitchens, Christopher 2007

  • Well, let me first explain what a sigmoidoscope is: a fiber-optic tubular instrument inserted through the anus for examining the interior of the rectum and sigmoid colon.

    Assholes, Dad's ass, and the ass of Cupid barbylon 2001

  • Well, let me first explain what a sigmoidoscope is: a fiber-optic tubular instrument inserted through the anus for examining the interior of the rectum and sigmoid colon.

    Assholes, Dad's ass, and the ass of Cupid barbylon 2001

  • The last patient was wheeled in ten minutes later, and Mr Gore-Symes, perched on a stool, applied his trained eye to the sigmoidoscope.

    Cruise To A Wedding Neels, Betty 1974

  • If you are in buena park and much foods in the bathroom organizers top toilet tank and there is everything in your drain, urinated taste pipes, plugged toilet, triggered truck - don't sigmoidoscope around with wider incorporated plumbers.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • If you are in buena park and much foods in the bathroom organizers top toilet tank and there is everything in your drain, urinated taste pipes, plugged toilet, triggered truck - don't sigmoidoscope around with wider incorporated plumbers.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • In a sigmoidoscopy, a sigmoidoscope is inserted through the anus and rectum and into the sigmoid colon.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

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