scopo-, scop-, scept-, skept-, -scope-, -scopy, -scopia, -scopic, -scopist

The phenomenon of seeing one's double, usually in the form of a hazy face and upper torso that mimics one's own gestures and expressions. It may be a symptom of temporoparietal pathology.

Also called autoscopic phenomenon and autoscopic hallucination.

1. An instrument that shows changes in the pressure of the atmosphere.
2. In physics, an apparatus for showing the loss of weight of objects in air, and that this loss is equal to the weight of the air displaced by them.

Something which is facing, or viewed, on the side, toward the base.

A modified bathysphere (a strong steel diving sphere that can be lowered by cable to depths of 3 000 feet/900 meters).

a binocular (simultaneous use by both eyes) device for viewing the ocular fundus (bottom or base of the eye).

1. A microscope for examining living tissue in the body.
2. A microscope used with a slit lamp for viewing segments of the living eye.

1. Microscopic examination of living tissue in the body.
2. Examination of the cornea, aqueous humor, lens, vitreous humor, and retina by use of a slitlamp combined with a binocular microscope.

1. A view or survey of life.
2. An earlier form of cinematograph or motion-picture projector; used in about 1900.

The medical examination of a body to discover whether it is alive or if there is any presence of life.

1. A clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in some Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ.
2. A senior Christian cleric; especially, in the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and Orthodox churches, who is in charge (overseer) of the spiritual life and administration of a particular region.
3. Etymology: Old English bisceop, from Late Latin episcopus; from Greek episkopos, "watcher, overseer"; a title for various government officials, later taken over in a church sense; from epi-, "over" + skopos, "watcher"; from skeptesthai, "to look at".

1. A thin, flexible instrument used to view the air passages of the lung.
2. An endoscope especially designed for passage through the trachea to permit inspection of the interior of the tracheobronchial tree and carrying out endobronchial diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers; such as, taking specimens for culture and biopsy and removing foreign bodies.