auscultate
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I wanted to auscultate, but that was not an option.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2020
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
"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
The medical man proceeded to auscultate his patient.
From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by John Roussel
If a student can auscultate correctly, or make up a prescription, at an examination, he will in all probability be able to do so in other circumstances.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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
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 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
After the king had been cross-questioned, looked at, handled, auscultated, and turned round again and again, Tristram spoke first, in a rude voice.
From Laboulaye's Fairy Book by Mary L. (Mary Louise) Booth
"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
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
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
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
On auscultating the heart, a churning sound may be heard.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
