Word Meanings - RHINOSCOPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The examination or study of the soft palate, posterior nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the pharynx.

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• INTRODUCTOR
  An introducer.
• PHARYNX
  The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.
• STUDY
  A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture. (more
• NARES
  The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.
• INTRODUCEMENT
  Introduction.
• INTRODUCTRESS
  A female introducer.
• INTRODUCTORY
  Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• PALATE
  The roof of the mouth. Note: The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular curtain which separates the cavity of the mouth from the
• INTRODUCE
  1. To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room. 2. To put ; to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe. 3. To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause
• MIRRORSCOPE
  See BELOW
• POSTERIORITY
  The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
• LARYNGOSCOPIC
  Of or pertaining to the inspection of the larynx.
• 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
• POSTERIORS
  The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.
• INTRODUCTION
  1. The act of introducing, or bringing to notice. 2. The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another. 3. That part of a book
• INTRODUCTIVE
  Serving to introduce; introductory. -- In`tro*duc"tive*ly, adv.
• MIRROR
  To reflect, as in a mirror.
• INTRODUCT
  To introduce.
• INTRODUCER
  One who, or that which, introduces.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• PRAENARES
  The anterior nares. See Nares. B. G. Wilder.
• UNDERSTUDY
  To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
• CANARESE
  Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.
• REINTRODUCE
  To introduce again. -- Re*in`tro*duc"tion (-d, n.
• TUBINARES
  A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.