scopo-, scop-, scept-, skept-, -scope-, -scopy, -scopia, -scopic, -scopist

(Greek > Latin: see, view, sight, look, look at, examine, behold, consider)

thermolaryngoscope
A laryngoscopic mirror heated electrically to prevent condensation.
thermoscope
1. An instrument for indicating slight differences of temperature without registering or recording them.
2. An instrument for detecting temperature changes in a substance by observing corresponding volume changes.
3. The earliest known version of a thermometer, developed by Galileo in 1592, using air in a tube instead of liquid.
thoracoscopy
The examination of the chest and especially the pleural cavity (chest cavity around lungs) by means of a thoracoscope.
tonoscope
An instrument for the examination of the interior of the cranium by means of sound.
tonsilloscopy
A medical inspection of the tonsils.
toposcopy
1. An apparatus to project the electrical activity of the cerebral cortex of the brain as a spatial coordinate visual system.
2. A monument erected on hills, mountains or high places which indicates the direction, and usually the distance, to notable landscape features that can be seen with the naked eye from that point.
tracheobronchoscopy
Inspection of the interior of the trachea and bronchi.
tracheoscope
An instrument used in tracheoscopy or the diagnosis of the interior of the trachea which is the thin-walled, cartilaginous tube descending from the larynx to the bronchi and carrying air to the lungs known as the "windpipe".
tracheoscopic
Pertaining to or of the character of tracheoscopy.
tracheoscopy
The inspection of the interior of the trachea (air passage of the throat) by means of a laryngoscopic mirror and reflected light or inspection through a bronchoscope (slender tubular instrument with a small light on the end).
transcolonic endoscopy
Endoscopic examinations of the colon through an opening in the colonic wall.
tribophosphoroscope (s) (noun), tribophosphoroscopes (pl)
An instrument for examining triboluminescence [glow or emission of light that results from friction or mechanical pressure].
trichinoscope
A magnifying glass used to inspect meat suspected of being infected with encysted trichinae (nematode worm).
trichoscopy
The examination of hair with a microscope or any other magnifying instrument.
ultramicroscope, ultramicroscopy
1. A microscope with high-intensity illumination used to study very minute objects, such as colloidal particles that scatter the light and appear as bright spots against a dark background.
2. A microscope that uses scattered light to make submicroscopic objects visible.
3. A microscope that uses light diffraction to permit the viewing of objects too small to be detected by an ordinary microscope.

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "appear, visible, visual, manifest, show, see, reveal, look": blep-; delo-; demonstra-; opt-; -orama; pare-; phanero-; phant-; pheno-; spec-; vela-, veal-; video-, visuo-.