Auscultation Definition

ôskəl-tāshən
noun
A listening.
Webster's New World
A listening, often with the aid of a stethoscope, to sounds in the chest, abdomen, etc. so as to determine the condition of the heart, lungs, etc.
Webster's New World
The act of listening.
American Heritage Medicine
The act of listening for sounds made by internal organs, as the heart and lungs, to aid in the diagnosis of certain disorders.
American Heritage Medicine

(medicine) Diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope.

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Other Word Forms of Auscultation

Noun

Singular:
auscultation
Plural:
auscultations

Origin of Auscultation

  • Latin auscultātiō auscultātiōn- from auscultātus past participle of auscultāre to listen to ous- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin a listening, a heeding

    From Wiktionary

Auscultation Sentence Examples

  • This is the most important assessment and can be determined by auscultation with a stethoscope or palpation at the junction of the umbilical cord and skin.

  • The discovery had, however, yet to be completed by that of auscultation, or listening to sounds produced in the chest by breathing, the movements of the heart, &c. The combination of these methods constitutes what is now known as physical diagnosis.

  • In the case of Laennec himself this qualification takes nothing from his fame, for he studied so minutely the relations of post-mortem appearances to symptoms during life that, had he not discovered auscultation, his researches in morbid anatomy would have made him famous.

  • It was of course antecedent to the discovery of auscultation.

  • The method of auscultation was soon introduced into England by pupils of Laennec. John Forbes (1787-1861) in 1824, and William Stokes (1804-1878) of Dublin in 1825, published treatises on the use of the stethoscope.

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