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 |
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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 |
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listening, hearing | The act of hearing attentively |
Spanish | auscultación |
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Catalan | auscultació |
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Adjectives | amphoric | the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle |
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auscultatory | of or relating to auscultation |
Verbs | auscultate | examine by auscultation |
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