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Listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)
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auscultation
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Wikipedia
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For the ancient monasterial worker, see Auscultare Auscultation (based on the Latin verb auscultare "to listen") is listening to the internal sounds of the body, usually using a stethoscope . Auscultation is performed for the purposes of examining the circulatory ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context medicine English) diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"act of listening," 1630s, from Latin auscultationem (nominative auscultatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of auscultare (see auscultate ). Medical sense is from 1821.
WordNet
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n. listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auscultation \Aus`cul*ta"tion\, n. [L. ausculcatio, fr. auscultare to listen, fr. a dim. of auris, orig. ausis, ear. See Auricle , and cf. Scout , n.] The act of listening or hearkening to. --Hickes. (Med.) An examination by listening either directly with ...
Usage examples of auscultation.
The auscultation performed by the patrol suggested that the Moon was uninhabited.
I will ignore the fact that the stethoscope really initiated auscultation as a useful examination procedure.
Includes inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation of body and organs.
Imperturbable, the physician opened her arms without looking at her and examined her by direct auscultation, his ear against her skin, first the chest and then the back.
She would go no further than allowing him to repeat the ceremony of palpation and auscultation with all the ethical violations he could desire, but without taking off her clothes.
Auscultation would reveal dyspnea, rich in rales, also tachypnea, suggesting mediastinal crunch.
Percussion gives a dull sound or if there are large cavities, it is hollow, and auscultation elicits the amphoric sound, as of blowing into a bottle.
Auscultation reveals a bubbling, gurgling sound, as the air passes through the matter in the bronchi, with the click, to the air cells beyond.
Until sufficient tubercular matter has been deposited in the lungs to alter the sounds observed on auscultation and percussion, a definite diagnosis of tubercular consumption cannot be made, even though there may have been hemorrhage.
Auscultation would reveal dyspnea, rich in rales, also tachypnea, suggesting mediastinal crunch.