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FIBERSCOPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A flexible medical instrument involving fiber optics that is used to examine internal organs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fiberscope" is a kind of...):
medical instrument (instrument used in the practice of medicine)
Meronyms (parts of "fiberscope"):
glass fiber; glass fibre; optical fiber; optical fibre (a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images)