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stethoscope


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stethoscope  \Steth"o*scope\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  the  breast  +  -scope:  cf 
  F.  st['e]thoscope.]  (Med.) 
  An  instrument  used  in  auscultation  for  examining  the  organs 
  of  the  chest,  as  the  heart  and  lungs,  by  conveying  to  the  ear 
  of  the  examiner  the  sounds  produced  in  the  thorax. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stethoscope  \Steth"o*scope\,  v.  t. 
  To  auscultate,  or  examine,  with  a  stethoscope.  --M.  W. 
  Savage. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stethoscope 
  n  :  a  medical  instrument  for  listening  to  the  sounds  generated 
  inside  the  body 




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