| NOUN | act | auscultation | listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) |
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| Meaning | listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope). | |
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| Narrower | percussion, pleximetry | tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes |
| succussion | shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid / liquid is present in a body cavity | |
| Broader | diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique | A procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis |
| listening, hearing | The act of hearing attentively | |
| Spanish | auscultación | |
| Catalan | auscultació | |
| Adjectives | amphoric | the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle |
| auscultatory | of or relating to auscultation | |
| Verbs | auscultate | examine by auscultation |
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