immediate auscultation

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The direct application of an examiner's ear to the surface of a patient's body in order to listen to the internal sounds of the body.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

Words nearby immediate auscultation

It is grandstanding for a right rarely protected unless under immediate attack.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Their immediate response tells an important truth about a police slowdown that has spread throughout New York City in recent days.
Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Analysts interpreted it as an immediate ripple effect of the newly established US-Cuban détente.
Venezuela Says Goodbye to Its Lil Friend, While the Rest of the Continent Cheers|Catalina Lobo-Guererro|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
During the immediate protests for Michael Brown I walked in the crowd solo and mostly silent.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Protesting|Rawiya Kameir, Judnick Mayard|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

JUDNICK: The immediate supremacist reaction is to equalize everything.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Protesting|Rawiya Kameir, Judnick Mayard|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The intricacies and abrupt turns in the road separated him from his immediate followers.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
It consists in finding relations between the objects of thought with an immediate awareness of those relations.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
All immediate danger having now been dispelled, the Spaniards solaced themselves with the sweets of revenge.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
I perceive no immediate reason for the evacuation of Peking as far as the supply of game is concerned.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
It lay framed within his thoughts, isolated from the rest of life, isolated somehow even from the immediate present.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood