STETHOSCOPE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stethoscope" is a kind of...):

medical instrument (instrument used in the practice of medicine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stethoscope"):

fetoscope; foetoscope (a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat)

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