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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.

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  1. n. 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.
  2. v. t. To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
  3. n. a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body
  4. 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. To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. M. W. Savage.
  5. An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs ofthe chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of theexaminer the sounds produced in the thorax.
  6. n:100 n. a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body