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

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

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