n :  an instrument fitted with a lighting system and telescopic attachment, designed to permit visual inspection within the chest cavity and treatment under visual control, and inserted through a puncture in the chest wall in an intercostal space tho*ra*co*scop*ic adj 
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  tho·ra·cos·co·py 
 
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