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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

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

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

The medical man proceeded to auscultate his patient.

From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by John Roussel

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 Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

He came at last, however, and, after having looked at the old woman, felt her pulse, auscultated her, he said:—"It is all over."

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant

"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

Politzer's Method.—For this a Politzer's air-bag and an auscultating tube, one end of which is inserted into the patient's ear and the other into the ear of the examiner, are required.

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

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

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

There can rarely be a doubt in the mind of the person who is auscultating as to the point at which all sound ceases.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne


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