The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auscultate \Aus"cul*tate\, v. i. & t. To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to listen" (especially with a stethoscope), 1832, from Latin auscultatus, past participle of auscultare "to listen attentively to," from aus-, from auris "ear" (see ear (n.1)); "the rest is doubtful" [OED]. Tucker suggests the second element is akin to clinere "to lean, bend."
Wiktionary
vb. To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
WordNet
v. examine by auscultation
Usage examples of "auscultate".
I auscultated the chest and palpated the abdomen with growing puzzlement.
The woman recovered, and the fetal heart-beats could be readily auscultated.
How often I was overcome by sleep as she auscultated my small, supposedly sick body: a light sleep born of the folds of white fabrics, a sleep shrouded in carbolic acid, a dreamless sleep except that sometimes in the distance her brooch expanded into heaven knows what: a sea of banners, the Alpine glow, a field of poppies, ready to revolt, against whom, Lord knows: against Indians, cherries, nosebleed, cocks' crests, red corpuscles, until a red occupying my entire field of vision provided the background for a passion which then as now was self-evident but not to be named, because the little word "red" says nothing, and nosebleed won't do it, and flag cloth fades, and if I nonetheless say "red," red spurns me, turns its coat to black.
I had eaten several meals, talked with Doctor Drade and been auscultated by the interns.
Martin put on first one pair of spectacles and then another to look at them as he auscultated, turned, and palpated.
How reassuring it was, after so many hands-off months of shrinking, to noodle around in bodies, palpating a belly, percussing a spleen, auscultating a heart, the sounds calling up the anatomy--that squeak a tight aortic valve, that train rumble a leaky mitral.