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Definition of auscultation in English: auscultationnoun ˌɔːsk(ə)lˈteɪʃ(ə)nˌɔskəlˈteɪʃən mass nounThe action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as a part of medical diagnosis. Example sentencesExamples - Results of the initial physical examination and auscultation will be presented to show how hypotheses were generated.
- Coarse crackles were present at both lung bases on chest auscultation.
- The results of auscultation of the lung and heart were normal.
- The intensity of breath sounds depends on the location of auscultation and on the bodyshape.
- Lungs were clear to auscultation and cardiac examination was normal.
- The most diagnostic of the physical findings are those found on auscultation of the heart.
- For example, the discovery of auscultation and later the stethoscope made individual patient reports of symptoms less important than the physician's own collection of diagnostic signs.
- In examining the abdomen you must apply the usual methods of physical examination in a particular order: inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion.
- The heart and lungs sounded normal on auscultation.
- Inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation were virtually the only tools that physicians had to diagnose every medical condition.
- The guideline recommends that in women who are healthy and have an uncomplicated pregnancy, intermittent auscultation is a suitable method of monitoring during labour.
- His cardiac and lung auscultation and neurologic examination were strictly normal.
Derivatives verb ˈɔːskəlteɪtˈɔskəlˌteɪt [with object]Examine a patient by listening to sounds from (the heart, lungs, or other organs), typically using a stethoscope. the lungs and heart should be auscultated for signs of congestive heart failure Example sentencesExamples - For women in our unit who are at low risk we are currently auscultating the fetal heart every 30 minutes in the first stage and after every contraction in the second stage of labour.
- But there is no substitute for seeing, feeling, auscultating, and directly observing a patient.
- The nurse auscultates the patient's lungs and assesses them for inflation and rales.
adjective ɔːˈskʌltət(ə)ri Clinical examination showed no auscultatory findings. Example sentencesExamples - Children with dehydration may have no abnormal auscultatory findings.
- Carefully trained patients can obtain accurate readings when monitoring themselves by using the conventional auscultatory technique.
- Two of the 310 children were diagnosed as having rheumatic heart disease based on auscultatory findings and echocardiography.
- The technique of auscultatory blood pressure measurement is a complicated one that is often taken for granted.
- The presence of auscultatory gaps is clinically significant because it is associated with an increased presence of target organ damage.
- Diagnosis and treatment of hypertension depend on accurate measurement of auscultatory blood pressure.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin auscultatio(n-), from auscultare 'listen to'. Definition of auscultation in US English: auscultationnounˌɔskəlˈteɪʃənˌôskəlˈtāSHən The action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as a part of medical diagnosis. Example sentencesExamples - Inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation were virtually the only tools that physicians had to diagnose every medical condition.
- In examining the abdomen you must apply the usual methods of physical examination in a particular order: inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion.
- The guideline recommends that in women who are healthy and have an uncomplicated pregnancy, intermittent auscultation is a suitable method of monitoring during labour.
- Results of the initial physical examination and auscultation will be presented to show how hypotheses were generated.
- The intensity of breath sounds depends on the location of auscultation and on the bodyshape.
- The heart and lungs sounded normal on auscultation.
- For example, the discovery of auscultation and later the stethoscope made individual patient reports of symptoms less important than the physician's own collection of diagnostic signs.
- His cardiac and lung auscultation and neurologic examination were strictly normal.
- Coarse crackles were present at both lung bases on chest auscultation.
- Lungs were clear to auscultation and cardiac examination was normal.
- The most diagnostic of the physical findings are those found on auscultation of the heart.
- The results of auscultation of the lung and heart were normal.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin auscultatio(n-), from auscultare ‘listen to’. |