A sigmoidoscope is a slender, lighted tube about the thickness of a finger. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [Why Women Aren't Funny] Reference
Colonoscopy - the doctor uses a colonoscope, which is much longer than a sigmoidoscope. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
It has no effect beyond the reach of the sigmoidoscope, but that is where two thirds of cancers occur. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Flexible sigmoidoscopy - the doctor uses a sigmoidoscope, a flexible, slender and lighted tube, to examine the patient's rectum and sigmoid (the sigmoid colon is the last of the colon, before the rectum). From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wii-volution]
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