stethoscope
To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscopeTo auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
» The doctor placed a stethoscope on the patient's chest.
Доктор поместил стетоскоп на грудь пациента.
Meaning
1 sensesTo auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
Examples
9 sentencesThe doctor placed a stethoscope on the patient's chest.
ruДоктор поместил стетоскоп на грудь пациента.
Tom is wearing a stethoscope.
The doctor held his stethoscope against the patient's chest.
ruВрач приложил стетоскоп к груди пациента.
deDer Arzt hielt dem Patienten das Stethoskop an die Brust.
The doctor listens to the patient's lungs with a stethoscope.
deDer Arzt hört die Lunge des Patienten mit dem Stethoskop ab.
Can you really use a stethoscope to crack a safe?
Origin
Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, eBorrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, equivalent to stetho- + -scope.
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Forms
stethoscopes, stethoscoping, stethoscoped, stethoscoped| Base form | stethoscope · to stethoscope |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | stethoscopes |
| Present participle | stethoscoping |
| Past simple | stethoscoped |
| Past participle | stethoscoped |
regular · Lesson
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle