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
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
Observation by the auscultatory method and a dial instrument 85 27.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
Therefore, wider range of pressure is obtained by the auscultatory method than by other methods.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
