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ANOSCOPY

origination date: 11/09/2000
originator: Claudia
subject field: medicine: diagnostic procedure
check date: 13/08/2001
checker: Pamela
URL: http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/diagnostics/anoscopy/anoscopy.shtml

originator: Arianne
origination date: 16/01/2001

Conceptual Structures
ISARIGID-ENDOSCOPY
ANCESTORSALL
DIAGNOSTIC-PROCEDURE
ENDOSCOPY
EVENT
HEALTH-SERVE
INVASIVE-DIAGNOSTIC-TEST
MEDICAL-SERVE
PROFESSIONAL-SERVICE-EVENT
RIGID-ENDOSCOPY
SERVICE-EVENT
SOCIAL-EVENT
WORK-ACTIVITY
RELATIONSAFFECTS-BODY-PART : ANUS
DIAGNOSTIC-TEST-FOR : ANAL-CANCER
INSTRUMENT : RIGID-ENDOSCOPE

English
anoscopyterm type: main entry term
part of speech: noun
number: singular
reliability code: 10
definition: endoscopy of the rectum. It is a diagnostic procedure for colon/rectal cancer. A anoscope is inserted through the rectum in order to view a portion of the colon where polyps and cancer are most frequently found. (en)

Spanish
anoscopiapart of speech: noun
gender: feminine
number: singular
reliability code: 10
definition: endoscopia del ano y de la porción inferior del recto mediante anoscopio. Se inserta un tubo por el recto y el colon para poder observar una parte del colon y recto donde se encuentran los pólipos y cánceres. Procedimiento diagnóstico para el cáncer de recto. (es)
term type: main entry term