auscultate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of auscultate
First recorded in 1860–65; back formation from auscultation
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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
The medical man proceeded to auscultate his patient.
From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by John Roussel
"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
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
The woman recovered, and the fetal heart-beats could be readily auscultated.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
"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
But imagine the awful temptation of having your heart auscultated.
From Doctor and Patient by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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
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
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
In auscultating the heart I prefer the binaural stethoscope of the Ford pattern.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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
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
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