Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stethoscope"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stethoscope \Steth"o*scope\, n. [Gr. ? the breast + -scope: cf.
F. st['e]thoscope.] (Med.)
An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs
of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear
of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stethoscope \Steth"o*scope\, v. t.
To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. --M. W.
Savage.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stethoscope
n : a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated
inside the body
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