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auscultate

[aw-skuhl-tayt] / ˈɔ skəlˌteɪt /




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I wanted to auscultate, but that was not an option.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2020

The medical man proceeded to auscultate his patient.

From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by John Roussel

Nevertheless, they gave advice, got on the moral hobby again, and had the assurance to auscultate.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert

It was therefore necessary to demolish, as we proceeded, a great part of the ship's inner skin and fittings, and to auscultate what remained, like a doctor sounding for a lung disease.

From The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson

Paramón Paramónitch felt his pulse, looked at his tongue, interrogated him after a fashion, and finally announced that it was indispensably necessary to "auscultate" him.

From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Isabel Florence Hapgood

I have palpated cancer, seen the havoc it wreaks under a microscope, and auscultated the damage it inflicts on the body’s organs.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015

"Although patients think they are going to be suffocated during a paroxysm, the chest is normally resonant on percussion, and if it be auscultated as they draw in breath again vesicular breathing is heard everywhere."

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

But imagine the awful temptation of having your heart auscultated.

From Doctor and Patient by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

He was summoned back to full consciousness, tapped, auscultated and examined.

From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn

The woman recovered, and the fetal heart-beats could be readily auscultated.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

On auscultating the heart, a churning sound may be heard.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

If the Eustachian tube is patent, a full clear sound is heard close to the examiner's ear through the auscultating tube.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

In auscultating the heart I prefer the binaural stethoscope of the Ford pattern.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield

He ended by auscultating him carefully, keeping his ear pressed closely to his chest for a considerable time.

From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano

By carefully auscultating diseased cows from day to day, interesting changes can be discovered during the animal's lifetime.

From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Robert Jennings


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