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cystoscopy

/sɪsˈtɑskəpi/noun

cystoscopy is a noun meaning “An endoscopy of the urinary bladder via the urethra” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-S-T-O-S-C-O-P-Y, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cystoscopy is cystoscopies.

What does cystoscopy mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An endoscopy of the urinary bladder via the urethra

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce cystoscopy?

  • UK /sɪsˈtɒskəpi/
  • US /sɪsˈtɑskəpi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of cystoscopy

  • cystoscopies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is cystoscopy?

Cystoscopy appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Cystoscopy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense endoscopy of the urinary bladder:

LanguageWords
Frenchcystoscopie
GermanZystoskopie
Portuguesecistoscopia
Spanishcistoscopia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.