auscultate
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I wanted to auscultate, but that was not an option.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2020
"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
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
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
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 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
The woman recovered, and the fetal heart-beats could be readily auscultated.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
But imagine the awful temptation of having your heart auscultated.
From Doctor and Patient by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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
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
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
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
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
On auscultating the heart, a churning sound may be heard.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
