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 Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The medical man proceeded to auscultate his patient.
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
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
M. Verriest auscultated with care the lungs, heart, and great vessels, and found the bruit de souffle, which he had detected in the morning at the apex of the heart and over the carotids.
From Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology by William Alexander Hammond
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
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
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.
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
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