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stethoscope

[ steth-uh-skohp ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.
  1. an instrument used in auscultation to convey sounds in the chest or other parts of the body to the ear of the examiner.


stethoscope

/ ˈstɛθəˌskəʊp; stɛˈθɒskəpɪ; ˌstɛθəˈskɒpɪk /

noun

  1. med an instrument for listening to the sounds made within the body, typically consisting of a hollow disc that transmits the sound through hollow tubes to earpieces
  2. Also calledobstetric stethoscope a narrow cylinder expanded at both ends to recieve and transmit fetal sounds
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


stethoscope

  1. An instrument used in listening to internal body sounds. Most familiarly, physicians and nurses use it to listen to heart sounds.


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Derived Forms

  • stethoscopy, noun
  • stethoscopic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • stetho·scoped adjective
  • ste·thos·co·pist [ste-, thos, -k, uh, -pist], noun
  • ste·thos·co·py [ste-, thos, -k, uh, -pee, steth, -, uh, -skoh-], noun
  • un·stetho·scoped adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stethoscope1

First recorded in 1810–20; stetho- + -scope
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stethoscope1

C19: from French, from Greek stēthos breast + -scope
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Example Sentences

He lost his stethoscope somewhere in the house — a familiar weight that sat on his neck for two decades.

Right now there are no standards for cataloguing something as simple as a heartbeat recorded via a digital stethoscope.

The stethoscope might track it by the half-­minute, but the provider might want that information by the minute.

Now imagine digitally connected devices like electronic stethoscopes and telemetry-capable electrocardiographs that could transmit data on a patient’s heartbeat, respiration, and blood-oxygen levels.

Instead of carrying a stethoscope, though, he carried a gun.

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An Army doctor stepped over with a stethoscope and chastened the firing squad when he determined that the heart was still beating.

A smiling, wise-looking Black man with a stethoscope around his neck stared out from the cover.

A medic standing close to her wore both a stethoscope and a gas mask around her neck—she seemed to be in shock.

On a table in front of her sat a stethoscope, a notepad and a small flashlight.

The puffs can be clearly heard with a stethoscope over the region of the stomach, and nowhere else.

Placing a stethoscope over the region of the heart, he listened for a few seconds.

At his right hand was a small table, on which stood a glass of milk, a phial, a stethoscope.

Chief Pasteur walked over to where Mellon lay and took his stethoscope out of his little black bag.

He could still hear Doc's words whistling through his teeth and feel the coldness of the stethoscope on his chest.

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