probe
Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
Other meanings
An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
A kind of
- surgical instrument
Related words
- probe-and-drogue
- armed probe
- Bracewell probe
- lambda probe
- light probe
- probe-scissors
- reflection probe
- space probe
- von Neumann probe
- bioprobe
- cryoprobe
- endoprobe
Word history
From Latin "probare" (to test, examine, prove).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “probe” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.