auscultationn.
/ɔːskʌlˈteɪʃən/ 1. The action of listening or hearkening.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > listening
hearkeningc1000
hearinga1225
listening13..
audiencec1405
earc1503
harking1530
exaudition1617
auscultation1634
listen1788
1634 T. Hickes Life Lucian in F. Hickes tr. Lucian Certaine Sel. Dialogues 3 You shall heare what deserves attentive auscultation.
1836 H. Taylor Statesman xxxi. 239 He who can listen with real attention to every thing that is said to him, has a great gift of auscultation.
1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets & Eng. Poets (1863) 64 The suggestive name of acroases—auscultations, things intended to be heard.
2. Medicine. The action of listening, with ear or stethoscope, to the sound of the movement of heart, lungs, or other organs, in order to judge their condition of health or disease.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > auscultation
auscultation1833
sounding1883
1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 234 The whole doctrine of auscultation as a means of diagnosis.
1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) 767 Auscultation reveals a loud basic systolic cardiac murmur.
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