The action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as a part of medical diagnosis.
‘The heart and lungs sounded normal on auscultation.’
‘His cardiac and lung auscultation and neurologic examination were strictly normal.’
‘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.’
‘The results of auscultation of the lung and heart were normal.’
‘The most diagnostic of the physical findings are those found on auscultation of the heart.’
‘Lungs were clear to auscultation and cardiac examination was normal.’
‘Coarse crackles were present at both lung bases on chest auscultation.’
‘In examining the abdomen you must apply the usual methods of physical examination in a particular order: inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion.’
‘Results of the initial physical examination and auscultation will be presented to show how hypotheses were generated.’
‘The guideline recommends that in women who are healthy and have an uncomplicated pregnancy, intermittent auscultation is a suitable method of monitoring during labour.’
‘Inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation were virtually the only tools that physicians had to diagnose every medical condition.’
‘The intensity of breath sounds depends on the location of auscultation and on the bodyshape.’
Origin
Mid 17th century from Latin auscultatio(n-), from auscultare ‘listen to’.
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