What does "stethoscope" mean?

A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.

How do you pronounce "stethoscope"?

Pronounced //ˈstɛθəskəʊp//.

Common synonyms include: amplifier, auscultation, auscultation instrument, diagnostic instrument, instrument, medical stethoscope.

/ˈstɛθəskəʊp/ noun, verb

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Noun

1
A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.
2
a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body wordnet

Verb

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"

"The doctor placed a stethoscope on the patient's chest."

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