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AUSCULTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("auscultation" is a kind of...):
diagnostic procedure; diagnostic technique (a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis)
hearing; listening (the act of hearing attentively)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "auscultation"):
percussion; pleximetry (tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes)
succussion (shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity)
Derivation:
auscultate (examine by auscultation)
