stethoscope
IPA: stˈɛθʌskoʊp
noun
- (medicine) A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.
verb
- (transitive) To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
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Examples of "stethoscope" in Sentences
- A stethoscope is used in the auscultatory method.
- A stethoscope head having a bell and a diaphragm.
- The latest in stethoscope technology - the iSteth.
- These are the drawings of the stethoscope and lungs.
- A doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to the breathing.
- Desired result is an autonomous diagnosing stethoscope.
- This can be heard with a stethoscope as a heart murmur.
- Sometimes crackles can be heard in the chest with stethoscope.
- So were the stethoscope, electrocardiograph, and the endoscope.
- Manual sphygmomanometers require a stethoscope for auscultation.
- After the doctor checked his heartbeat using a stethoscope, he replied none.
- That dramatic boardroom stethoscope is beginning to engender irrational hatred.
- "Oh, that just makes you the medicines doctor, the other fella with the stethoscope is the disease doctor"
- Stopping the heart -- putting it into atrial fib, so all you get with a stethoscope is a flutter -- is another nice trick.
- My question: who the heck does or will set government policy w.r.t. healthcare if not those who actually, you know, know a stethoscope from a beer bong?
- Laennec later created a new instrument made from hollow wooden cylinder he called stethoscope, from the Greek words stethos (chest) and skopos (examination).
- I had found his pulse irregular and intermittent, I took out a stethoscope, which is a pocket-spyglass for looking into men's chests with your ears, and laid it over the place where the heart beats.
- If the ear be placed on the abdomen, over the womb, the beating of the foetal heart can sometimes be heard quite plainly, and by the use of an instrument called the stethoscope, the sounds can be still more plainly heard.
- Steve Perlstein writes, The basic view from behind the stethoscope is that health care would be a whole lot better if only the docs were given free rein to treat their patients, organize their practices, run the hospitals and set their own fees ….