- 1大腸鏡檢查（中國大陸較常說「結腸鏡檢查」）
A colonoscopy is a medical check of the colon. The colon here is the last long part of your gut — the large , the tube that carries waste out of the body. A doctor sends a thin, bendy camera in through the bottom so they can look at the inside wall. They are looking for growths, bleeding, or cancer. In Taiwan, people of a certain age are often asked to have this check. It is a hospital word, not a dinner-table word. People sometimes feel shy or scared because of where the camera goes; doctors treat it as ordinary, and you can too. It is not related to the mark called a colon, even though they are spelled the same, and it has nothing to do with colonies or .
組成colono-（結腸、大腸）+ -scopy（用儀器往裡面看）。
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
colonoscopynoun/ˌkɒ.ləˈnɒ.skə.pi/
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medicinesciencesThe examination of the colon using a colonoscope.
- Colonoscopy can be expected to identify lesions missed on barium enema, such as small polyps and angiodysplasia. […] Often the preparation of the colon is not ideal, and this can add to the difficulty of performing colonoscopy and interpreting the findings. Tedesco and colleagues reported the results of colonoscopy in 258 patients with rectal bleeding.
- Although colonoscopy procedures for routine screenings are not included in that new requirement, surveillance and diagnostic procedures to detect cancer are. UnitedHealthCare said in a fact sheet that this change is due to colonoscopies being overutilized.
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