[f. LARYNGO- + -SCOPE.] An apparatus that by a combination of mirrors enables an observer to inspect a patient’s larynx.
1860. Med. Times & Gaz., I. 453. The highly practical results obtained on the Continent by the use of the Laryngoscope.
1864. Max Müller, Sci. Lang., Ser. II. iii. (1868), 109. The newly-invented laryngoscope (a small looking-glass, which enables the observer to see as far as the bifurcation of the windpipe and the bronchial tubes).
1880. M. Mackenzie, Dis. Throat & Nose, I. 213. There is no trace of a laryngoscope before the middle of the eighteenth century.
