Endoscope

Abstract

An endoscope capable of preventing a liquid in a liquid path from being sucked up and injected together with a gas at the time of an air supply operation. In an endoscope including a liquid path through which a liquid passes and a gas path through which a gas passes, and in which a joining recessed portion in which the liquid and the gas join is formed in a distal end portion, one end side of the liquid path and one end side of the gas path communicate with the joining recessed portion, and a size of a first communication hole between the gas path and the joining recessed portion is made larger than a size of a second communication hole between the liquid path and the joining recessed portion.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.