endoscopic

adjective

en·​do·​scop·​ic ˌen-də-ˈskä-pik 

: of, relating to, or performed by means of an endoscope or endoscopy

endoscopically

ˌen-də-ˈskä-pi-k(ə-)lē 

adverb

Examples of endoscopic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Performed via a minimally invasive endoscopic device, this approach is designed to help people who want to stop taking GLP-1 drugs. —Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Dec. 2025

By the end of her appointment, she was sold on a deep plane face and neck lift, a platysmaplasty, an upper lip lift, a midface lipografting and an endoscopic browlift. —Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025

The condition can be treated and effectively managed using a thin tube or shunt that is implanted surgically and helps drain away the fluid with an endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV). —Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025

Led by Andrea Toulouse, PhD, a micro-optics and fiber-based 3D printing expert from the Institute of Applied Optics at the University of Stuttgart, the project aims to make in-body tissue repair a reality through endoscopic micro-optics. —Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1865, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for endoscopic

• arthroscopic
• barotropic
• cystoscopic
• gyroscopic
• hygroscopic
• isentropic
• isotopic
• isotropic
• macroscopic
• microscopic
• orthotopic
• orthotropic

Medical Definition

endoscopic

adjective

en·​do·​scop·​ic ˌen-də-ˈskäp-ik 

: of, relating to, or performed by means of an endoscope or endoscopy

… patients with jaundice in whom an endoscopic stent is required to relieve obstruction.

—Manuel Hidalgo, The New England Journal of Medicine

endoscopically

-i-k(ə-)lē 

adverb