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Stethoscope

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of various instruments used for listening to sounds produced within the body.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body, often combined with a sphygmomanometer

v. To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. 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.

v. To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An instrument used in auscultation to convey the sounds from the chest or other part of the patient to the ear of the observer.

To examine by means of a stethoscope.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body

Word Usage

"Laennec later created a new instrument made from hollow wooden cylinder he called stethoscope, from the Greek words stethos (chest) and skopos (examination)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

medical instrument

Cross Reference

differential stethoscope bin-aural stethoscope

Hyponym

fetoscope foetoscope

Form

stethoscopically stethoscopical stethoscopy stethoscopic

Same Context

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