laparoscopy

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
laparoscopy /ˌlapəˈrɒskəpi/

▶noun (pl. laparoscopies) a surgical procedure in which a fibre-optic instrument is inserted through the abdominal wall to view the organs in the abdomen or permit small-scale surgery.

– derivatives
laparoscope noun,
laparoscopic adjective,
laparoscopically adverb.

– origin C19: from Gk lapara ‘flank’ + -scopy.