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stethoscope, n.|ˈstɛθəskəʊp|
Also 9 erron. stethescope.
[a. F. stéthoscope (Laennec, the inventor, c 1819), f. Gr. στῆθος chest + σκοπ-εῖν to look at, observe: see -scope.]
An instrument used for examining the chest or other part by auscultation, the sounds of the heart, lungs, or other internal organs being conveyed by means of it to the ear of the observer.
1820Med. Jrnl. XLIII. 165 The instrument used by M. Laennec, and to which he has applied the term stethoscope. 1824J. Forbes (title) Original Cases, with Dissections and Observations illustrating the use of the Stethoscope and Percussion. 1828–32Webster, Stethescope. 1861Brit. & For. Med.-Chirurg. Rev. XXVIII. 147 Bin-aural stethoscopes,..meant to intensify the sound..by conveying it simultaneously to both the ears of the auscultator. 1861Alb. Smith Lond. Med. Stud. 13 A stethescope—a curious instrument, something like a sixpenny toy-trumpet.
fig.1861Sat. Rev. 7 Sept. 238 The stethoscope which will record..the true state of the financial health of the States will be afforded by the market rates of Federal securities.
Hence ˈstethoscope v. trans., to apply a stethoscope to, examine with a stethoscope. stethoscopic |-ˈskɒpɪk| [= F. stéthoscopique], -scopical adjs., pertaining to, of the nature of, observed or obtained by a stethoscope. stethoˈscopically adv., by means of the stethoscope. stethoscopist |stɪˈθɒskəpɪst|, one who uses a stethoscope. steˈthoscopy [= F. sté thoscopie], examination of the chest or other part with a stethoscope; the use of the stethoscope.
1840A. Ewing in A. J. Ross Mem. (1877) 66 He would be much better able to judge if I would allow him to *stethoscope me. 1865Spectator 30 Sept. 1084 He has been repeatedly stethescoped, and his lungs pronounced perfectly sound.
1828Lancet 23 Feb. 755/1 A *stethoscopic examination performed by a student. 1861S. S. Alison Phys. Exam. Chest 336 The hydrophone..is more an acoustic than a stethoscopic instrument.
1867E. Yates Forlorn Hope x, The *stethoscopical examination, and the prescription-writing.
1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 374 Many so-called dull sounds become obviously musical when tested *stethoscopically.
1828Lancet 23 Feb. 755/1 The minute scrutiny of the attentive and accurate *stethoscopist. 1859G. Wilson Mem. E. Forbes iv. 132 The skill which has characterized the Edinburgh stethoscopists.
1855Dunglison Med. Lex. s.v. Stethoscope, This mode of examining affections of the chest, *Stethoscopy..is what Laënnec terms Auscultation médiate.
Add: ˈstethoscoped a., equipped with a stethoscope.
1972Guardian 23 Oct. 11/1, I can..think of few things more autocratic than the power of a gynaecologist to exercise his right of decision over whether or not a woman shall continue to carry a child she does not wish to bear... White-overall'd stethoscoped Napoleons. 1984Canad. Business July 186/3 As the founder of the Bathtub Doctor, with its catchy advertising image of a stethoscoped doctor rushing off to revive expiring tubs, he popularized home refinishing of bathtubs. |