Laënnec

American  

[ley-nek] / leɪˈnɛk /

noun

1. René Théophile Hyacinthe 1781–1826, French physician who invented the stethoscope.

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Laënnec British  

/ laɛnɛk /

noun

1. René Théophile Hyacinthe (rəne teɔfil jasɛ̃t). 1781–1826, French physician, who invented the stethoscope

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Example Sentences

The stethoscope was invented in 1816 by a French physician, René Laënnec.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2015

In 1816, Dr. René Laënnec needed a better way to listen to patients’ chests, so he made a cylinder of paper that evolved into the stethoscope.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2014

Koch, together with Battista Morgagni, René Laënnec and others led the scientific charge against this once mysterious infection: this was continental European medicine in its heyday, triumphant in its powerful ability to discover.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2012

Laënnec's stethoscope In France, Dr. Laënnec published his epoch-making work "Traité d'Auscultation Médiate," the result of his recent experiments in listening to human heart-beats and lung respirations through a hollow cylinder.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin

Various names were given to the instrument until Laënnec decided to call it "stethoscope," the name it has ever since retained.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin