auscultate
verb (used with or without object)
to examine by auscultation.
auscultatory
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a word derived from
auscultate.
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a word derived from
auscultation.
auscultationnounthe act of listening, either directly or through a stethoscope or other instrument, to sounds within the body as a method of diagnosis.
Example Sentences
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The auscultatory systolic blood pressure in the elbow can be confirmed by inflating the cuff and palpating the radial pulse at the wrist.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only accurate method of determining both the systolic and diastolic pressure, but especially the diastolic, is by the so-called auscultatory method.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
In some persons the auscultatory readings cannot be made, or are very unsatisfactory, and it becomes necessary to use the palpation method in taking the systolic pressure.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
Now with the auscultatory method and the correct place to read the diastolic pressure the results of blood pressure estimations should begin to have some value for statistical data.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
The symptoms and auscultatory signs of chronic bronchitis are on the whole similar to those pertaining to the acute form, except that the febrile disturbance and pain are much less marked.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
