medscanner

English

medscanner (plural medscanners)

(science fiction, chiefly Star Trek) A portable device capable of scanning a patient to diagnose sickness or injury.
- 1997, Diane Duane, Intellivore, page 102:
  He knelt beside Crusher and watched, briefly useless, as she passed her medscanner over the body. Except that it wasn't a body.
- 2009, Neal Asher, Cowl, page 380:
  Deep wounds in his chest were seeping blood, and the medscanner Tacitus had pressed against his neck showed his vital signs on the wane.