STETHOSCOPE
\stˈɛθəskˌə͡ʊp], \stˈɛθəskˌəʊp], \s_t_ˈɛ_θ_ə_s_k_ˌəʊ_p]\
Definitions of STETHOSCOPE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Oddity Software
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Instruments intended to detect and study sound produced by the heart, lungs, or other parts of the body. (from UMDNS, 1999)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A kind of telephone for examining the organs of the chest, by conveying to the ear the sounds produced in the body.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An instrument intensifying and transferring sounds of various organs to ear of physician.
By William R. Warner
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An instrument used by medical men for distinguishing sounds within the thorax and other cavities of the body. In its simplest and most common form it consists of a simple hollow cylinder of some fine-grained light wood, as cedar or maple, with one extremity funnel-shaped and furnished with a conical plug; the other with a comparatively large orbicular ivory plate, fastened by a screw. In using it the funnel-shaped extremity, either with or without the plug, is placed upon the body, and the ivory plate to the ear of the listener. Flexible instruments of rubber are also used, and are provided with one or two ear-tubes, in the latter case the sounds being appreciable by both ears.
By Daniel Lyons
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An apparatus for conveying to the ear of an operator the sounds produced with in the lungs, heart, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An instrument invented by Laennec, of Paris, for exploring the chest. The stethoscope, sometimes called Pectoriloque, is a cylinder of wood, from four inches to a foot long; pierced through and through by a longitudinal canal about a quarter of an inch in diameter. The longer are generally composed of two portions, that fit together by means of a screw, one of which is hollowed at the extremity, in the shape of a funnel. These two portions being screwed to each other, the physician lays hold of the instrument, as he would of a pen, puts the funnelshaped extremity on the chest of the patient, and applies his ear to the other. To explore the pulsations of the heart, the funnel is plugged up by a piece of the same kind of wood accurately adapted to it, and pierced by a canal of the same width as that in the body of the instrument. Stethoscopes are sometimes flexible, like the flexible ear-trumpet. This mode of examining affections of the chest, Steth’oscopy, Stethoscop'ia, &c., is what Laenneo terms Auscultation mediate, Mediate Auscultation
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An instrument for conveying to the ear for diagnostic purposes the sounds produced within the body. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe