auscultate
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I wanted to auscultate, but that was not an option.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2020
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
"I wish you to auscultate me," he said, addressing the doctor who entered the room.
From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by John Roussel
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
The medical man proceeded to auscultate his patient.
From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by John Roussel
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
The woman recovered, and the fetal heart-beats could be readily auscultated.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
"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
He was summoned back to full consciousness, tapped, auscultated and examined.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
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
As the inflammation increases and the worms and mucous secretions plug up the small bronchial tubes, the coughing spells become more severe and rattling, wheezing sounds may be heard on auscultating the lungs.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
Inflation through the Eustachian Catheter.—For this method, in addition to the Politzer's bag and the auscultating tube, a silver or vulcanite Eustachian catheter is required.
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
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
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
