auscultate

[aw-skuhl-teyt]

verb (used with or without object)

Medicine/Medical.

auscultated, auscultating 

1. to examine by auscultation.

Other Word Forms

• auscultative adjective
• auscultatory adjective
• auscultator noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of auscultate¹

First recorded in 1860–65; back formation from auscultation

Example Sentences

I wanted to auscultate, but that was not an option.

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An old man with a failing heart couldn’t breathe but sneaked his hand up an intern’s skirt as she auscultated his chest.

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I have palpated cancer, seen the havoc it wreaks under a microscope, and auscultated the damage it inflicts on the body’s organs.

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"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."

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In auscultating the heart I prefer the binaural stethoscope of the Ford pattern.

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