Definition of arthroscope in English:
arthroscope
noun ˈɑːθrəskəʊpˈärTHrəˌskōp
Medicine An instrument through which the interior of a joint may be inspected or operated on.
Example sentencesExamples
- The 20-power magnification of the arthroscope has led to the identification of lesions once missed by conventional ‘open ‘techniques.’
- This step was completed by switching the arthroscope to the anterior cannula while maintaining the thermal probe in the accessory posterior portal.
- The arthroscope also enables a joint to be washed out easily, and this in itself may be valuable.
- After prepping and draping the patient's extremity, the surgeon makes a stab incision and inserts the arthroscope into the knee joint through a standard inferolateral portal.
- When the surgery is complete, your surgeon removes the arthroscope and any other instruments and flushes the joint with a saline solution.
Derivatives
adjective
Medicine The role of arthroscopic debridement for degenerative arthritis of the knee is controversial.
Example sentencesExamples
- Possibly three to four weeks after the arthroscopic biopsy, surgeons perform another surgical procedure.
- Twenty-eight of these patients were treated with arthroscopic debridement of the lesion.
- The reasons for the discrepancy between MRI and arthroscopic diagnosis in our study may be multiple.
- Any bleeding is immediately cauterized with an arthroscopic electrocautery tip.
noun
Medicine Before starting the arthroscopy, the surgeon tests the cannula sites with a needle to see if the areas are numb or if additional local anesthetic is needed.
Example sentencesExamples
- Although chondral injury is a reported indication for hip arthroscopy, these lesions can be an elusive source of hip pain.
- Magnetic resonance imaging or examination under anesthesia and arthroscopy are options when adequate examination is not possible because of pain or spasm.
- All patients in the study underwent diagnostic arthroscopy the day after ultrasonography.
- At the repeat arthroscopy no new lesions were found.