Crossword-Solution: ENDOSCOPIC 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

With this abstract as a starting point, the author has endeavored, so far as lay within his limited abilities, to accomplish the difficult task of presenting by written word the various purely manual endoscopic procedures.

The wires connecting the battery and endoscopic instrument are covered with rubber, so that they may be cleansed and superficially sterilized with alcohol.

Each group has its own rheostat and pair of binding posts.] _Aspirating Tubes_.--Independent aspirating tubes involve delay in their use as compared to aspirating canals in the wall of the endoscopic tube; but there are special cases in which an independent tube is invaluable.

The side-curved forceps are perhaps the most generally useful of all the endoscopic forceps; the side projection of the jaws makes them readily visible during their closure on an object; their broader grasp is also an advantage., The projection of the blades in the side-curved grasping forceps should always be directed toward the left.

The upper instrument is sometimes useful as a mechanical spoon for removing large, smooth foreign bodies from the esophagus.] _Esophageal Dilators_.--The dilatation of cicatricial stenosis of the esophagus can be done safely only by endoscopic methods.