endoscopy

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-002158",
  "term": "endoscopy",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Procedures of applying endoscopes for disease diagnosis and treatment. Endoscopy involves passing an optical instrument through a small incision in the skin i.e. percutaneous; or through a natural orifice and along natural body pathways such as the digestive tract; and/or through an incision in the wall of a tubular structure or organ, i.e. transluminal, to examine or perform surgery on the interior parts of the body.",
  "subject": "Animals, Livestock, One Health",
  "see_also": [
    "surgery",
    "diagnostic techniques",
    "surgical ablation",
    "angioscopy",
    "arthroscopy",
    "colposcopy",
    "culdoscopy",
    "cystoscopy",
    "digestive tract endoscopy",
    "fetoscopy",
    "hysteroscopy",
    "mediastinoscopy",
    "neuroendoscopy",
    "thoracoscopy",
    "ureteroscopy",
    "endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography",
    "respiratory tract endoscopy",
    "laparoscopy"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2012",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "endoscopía"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/endoscopy/"
}