1. A medical procedure in which a thin, flexible tube with a camera is inserted into the uterus to directly visualize and examine a fetus during pregnancy.
Usage: medical/obstetric term; also called fetoscope examination

Examples

• The obstetrician recommended fetoscopy to assess the fetal abnormality more closely.
• Fetoscopy allows doctors to perform minimally invasive surgery on the fetus before birth.
• During fetoscopy, the physician can collect fetal blood samples for diagnostic testing.
• Fetoscopy is sometimes used to treat twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome in utero.
• The procedure of fetoscopy carries a small risk of miscarriage, so it is reserved for specific medical indications.