0 a medical examination of the lower part of the colon (= the lower part of the tube that takes solid waste out of your body):
The Cancer Society recommends a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years.
The patient continued to experience severe abdominal pain and was taken for sigmoidoscopy.
The need for sigmoidoscopy in patients with obscure iron deficiency anaemia is contentious.
A similar procedure, called a flexible sigmoidoscopy, examines a smaller portion of the colorectal area.
44 percent of those surveyed said they had never had a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy.
