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Stethoscope

//ˈstɛθəskəʊp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.
  2. 2
    a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. transitive

    "you wish me to submit to be stethoscoped; if so, you shall be gratified, although the prospect of undergoing that, or any other operation at Mr. Pigwidgeon's hands, is not the most agreeable"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, equivalent to stetho- + -scope.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, equivalent to stetho- + -scope.

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