A medical instrument (like a tube with a light and lens) used to look inside the abdominal cavity.
From Latin abdomen + Greek skopein (to look, examine). The -scope suffix comes from Greek and appears in many medical instruments like microscope and stethoscope.
The -scope suffix is one of the most productive word-building pieces in medical terminology—it literally means 'to look,' and doctors have created dozens of instruments by combining it with different body parts.
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