Crossword clues for stethoscope
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stethoscope \Steth"o*scope\, v. t.
To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
--M. W.
Savage.
Stethoscope \Steth"o*scope\ (st[e^]th"[-o]*sk[=o]p), n. [Gr. sth^qos the breast + -scope: cf. F. st['e]thoscope.] (Med.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
instrument for examining the chest, 1820, from French stéthoscope, coined 1819 by its inventor, French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781-1826) from comb. form of Greek stethos "chest, breast" + -scope. Greek stethos is perhaps related to sternon (see sternum); it meant "front of the chest," and was only rarely used of a woman's breasts, but in Modern Greek it became the preferred polite term. Related: Stethoscopic; stethoscopy.
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body, often combined with a sphygmomanometer vb. (context transitive English) To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
WordNet
n. a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body
Wikipedia
The stethoscope is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening to the internal sounds of an animal or human body. It typically has a small disc-shaped resonator that is placed against the chest, and two tubes connected to earpieces. It is often used to listen to lung and heart sounds. It is also used to listen to intestines and blood flow in arteries and veins. In combination with a sphygmomanometer, it is commonly used for measurements of blood pressure. Less commonly, "mechanic's stethoscopes" are used to listen to internal sounds made by machines, such as diagnosing a malfunctioning automobile engine by listening to the sounds of its internal parts. Stethoscopes can also be used to check scientific vacuum chambers for leaks, and for various other small-scale acoustic monitoring tasks. A stethoscope that intensifies auscultatory sounds is called phonendoscope.
Usage examples of "stethoscope".
Sign listened intently with a stethoscope placed on the unimpressive dark chest of the body of the Anarch Thomas Peak.
He shut the bronchoscope and confirmed his findings with his stethoscope.
Scalpels, syringes, stethoscope, and excruciator spilled onto the blood-stained tiles, adding to the clatter.
This usually happened, and I palpated the snarling bundle of white hair and went over him with stethoscope and thermometer.
Most of these people were not even mentally unwell, but their tendency to choke at dinner time meant that the piece of medical equipment he had used most was not a stethoscope or a thermometer but a probang, an instrument for pushing stuck food down the oesophagus, something he had been instructed to carry at all times.
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It was the stethoscope with which they took the pulse of the all and noted the birth and death of stars, the probe with which, here on an insignificant planet of an undistinguished star on the edge of its galaxy, they explored the infinite.
A big cigar and several tongue depressors protrude from his white lab coat, and a red stethoscope hangs around his neck.
Bishop asked one of the medical techs, a woman whose jacket was adorned with a stethoscope and hemostat clamps.
A short matronly woman with coarse gray hair and a stethoscope dangling from her neck rapped her knuckles against the open door and walked in.
Out of the corner of her eye she could see her coiled up stethoscope and the calibrated case of the sphygmomanometer waiting to be tidied away.
Kate pulled a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer out of one of her travel bags.
His triangularis pulling both corners of his mouth down in a frown, he puts his cold stethoscope between her shoulder blades.
She let Naomi and Baruch hear the heartbeats, then coiled her stethoscope.
Then I saw his stethoscope with rows of notches on the stem, and again there was a perfect explanation.