stethoscope

Modern stethoscope

Meanings

Noun

A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.

Verb

To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.

Origin

Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, equivalent to stetho- + -scope.

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