Word Meanings - ENDOSCOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.

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• INTERIOR
  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore;
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• EXAMINABLE
  Capable of being examined or inquired into. Bacon.
• EXAMINING
  Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.
• INTERIORLY
  Internally; inwardly.
• URETHRAL
  Of or pertaining to the urethra. Urethral fever , fever occurring as a consequence of operations upon the urethra.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• EXAMINANT
  1. One who examines; an examiner. Sir W. Scott. 2. One who is to be examined. H. Prideaux.
• INSTRUMENTALLY
  1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
• INSTRUMENT
  A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium,
• BLADDER
  A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. 2. Any vesicle or
• BLADDERWORT
  A genus of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.
• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these
• EXAMINATOR
  An examiner. Sir T. Browne.
• EXAMINATE
  A person subjected to examination. Bacon.
• BLADDERY
  Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
• INSTRUMENTALIST
  One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
• EXAMINATION
  1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment. 2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate
• INSTRUMENTALNESS
  Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• REEXAMINABLE
  Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story.
• REEXAMINE
  To examine anew. Hooker.
• LATUS RECTUM
  The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter.
• CROSS-EXAMINE
  To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. "The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses." Kent.
• PREEXAMINE
  To examine beforehand.