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auscultation|ɔːskʌlˈteɪʃən| [ad. L. auscultātiōn-em, f. auscultāt-: see prec. and -ation.] 1. The action of listening or hearkening.
1634Hickes Lucian (T.) You shall hear what deserves attentive auscultation. 1836H. Taylor Statesman xxxi. 239 He who can listen with real attention to every thing that is said to him, has a great gift of auscultation. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets (1863) 64 The suggestive name of acroases—auscultations, things intended to be heard. 2. Med. The action of listening, with ear or stethoscope, to the sound of the movement of heart, lungs, or other organs, in order to judge their condition of health or disease.
1833J. Forbes Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 234 The whole doctrine of auscultation as a means of diagnosis. 1872Thomas Dis. Wom. 767 Auscultation reveals a loud basic systolic cardiac murmur. |