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AUSCULTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auscultation mean? 

AUSCULTATION (noun)
  The noun AUSCULTATION has 1 sense:

1. listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)play

  Familiarity information: AUSCULTATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AUSCULTATION (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)


 Context examples 


Abnormal breath sounds (crackles) heard on auscultation only in the bases of the lungs.

(Basilar Rales, NCI Thesaurus)

A systemic evaluation of the body and its functions using visual inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation.

(Physical examination, NCI Thesaurus)

A periodic humming or blowing sound heard on auscultation of the heart that can indicate the presence of cardiac disease; murmurs are the result of vibrations caused by the turbulent flow of blood in the heart or great vessels.

(Heart Murmur, NCI Thesaurus)



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