Stethoscope
['steθəskəʊp] or ['stɛθəskop]
Definition
(noun.) a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body.
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Definition
(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. t.) To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
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Definition
n. an instrument for auscultation consisting of a tubular piece of wood to be applied to the patient's body—in the binaural form with tubes of rubber &c. to convey the sounds to the physician's ears.—adjs. Stethoscop′ic -al pertaining to or performed by the stethoscope.—adv. Stethoscop′ically.—ns. Steth′oscopist; Steth′oscopy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a stethoscope, foretells calamity to your hopes and enterprises. There will be troubles and recriminations in love.
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Examples
- Laennec discovers Auscultation and invents Stethoscope. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The binaural stethoscope was invented by Cammann in 1854, and a later improvement is the phonendoscope, by Bianchi. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He not only used his stethoscope (which had not become a matter of course in practice at that time), but sat quietly by his patient and watched him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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