Also known as: col.
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Colonoscopy or coloscopy is the endoscopic examination of the large bowel and the distal part of the small bowel with a CCD camera or a fiber optic camera on a flexible tube passed through the anus. It can provide a visual diagnosis and grants the opportunity for biopsy or removal of suspected colorectal cancer lesions. Colonoscopy can remove polyps as small as one millimetre or less.
MedicineThe amount by which something has changed length, measured as a percentage of its original length. The amount of elongation or compression that occurs in a metal at a given stress or load. Generally in terms of inches elongation per inch of material. Strain semiconductors, strained either by external forces or due to lattice mismatched epitaxial growth, have modified band struc-tures, especially the band gap and effective masses.
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