Auscultation
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope. countable, uncountable
"They thus appeared to be taking her, together, for the moment, and almost for sociability, as prepared to proceed to gratuitous extremities; the upshot of which was in turn, that after much interrogation, auscultation, exploration, much noting of his own sequences and neglecting of hers, had duly kept up the vagueness, they might have struck themselves, or may at least strike us, as coming back from an undeterred but useless voyage to the north pole."
- 2 listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) wordnet
Example
More examples"They thus appeared to be taking her, together, for the moment, and almost for sociability, as prepared to proceed to gratuitous extremities; the upshot of which was in turn, that after much interrogation, auscultation, exploration, much noting of his own sequences and neglecting of hers, had duly kept up the vagueness, they might have struck themselves, or may at least strike us, as coming back from an undeterred but useless voyage to the north pole."
Etymology
From Latin auscultātio (“act of listening”).
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