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n. - Visual examination of the stomach by means of a long slender medical instrument inserted through the esophagus.

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  • So they decided to forego the gastroscopy and open him up to see what was going on.
  • I was in hospital this morning for a gastroscopy - nothing too worrying, just one of those camera and light thingies they put down your throat to make sure everything's...
  • Robin Warren, in his professional role as a clinical pathologist, observed spiral-shaped bacteria in tissue specimens from the stomachs of many patients who had undergone...
  • SHA'ATH: Well, we know that he was subjected to a lot of sedation in order to conduct investigations, like colonoscopy and gastroscopy and so on, and these required that...
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