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Definition: Stethoscope |
StethoscopeNoun1. A medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stethoscope" was first used: 1820. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of a stethoscope, foretells calamity to your hopes and enterprises. There will be troubles and recriminations in love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Medicine | An instrument used for the detection and study of sounds within the body that conveyed to the ears of the observer through rubber tubing. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The stethoscope is an acoustic medical device for listening to internal sounds in the human body. It is most often used to listen to heartbeats and breathing, though it is also used to listen to intestines and to blood flow in arteries and veins.
The stethoscope consists of a contact piece which is placed on the skin of a patient. This contact piece has a membrane, that vibrates to the sounds in the body. This vibration is transmitted through rubber tubes connected to earpieces. Doctors listen to the sounds through the earpieces. There are two types of contact pieces: the first is a bell type of contact which picks up low-pitched sounds while the second is a diaphragm type which picks up high-pitched sounds. Doctors also sometimes use a combination bell-diaphragm contact piece.
The stethoscope is used in aid of diagnosing certain diseases. The stethoscope is able to transmit certain sounds and exclude others. Listening this way is known as auscultation. Before the stethoscope was invented, doctors placed their ear next to the patient's body.
The stethoscope was invented in France in 1816 by René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec. It consisted of a hollow wooden tube.
Stethoscopes are often considered as a symbol of the doctor's profession, as doctors are often seen or depicted with a stethoscope hanging around their neck.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stethoscope."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Clinical thermometer, stethoscope, X-ray machine. |
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Crosswords: Stethoscope |
| English words defined with "stethoscope": auscultation ♦ fetoscope, foetoscope ♦ Laryngophony ♦ Metroscope ♦ rale, rattle, rattling, rhonchus ♦ Stethoscopical, Stethoscopist, Stethoscopy ♦ wheeziness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stethoscope": BEACH LIFEGUARD ♦ tester, vibrator equipment, top-lift and automatic-window repairer ♦ VIBRATOR-EQUIPMENT TESTER. (references) |
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Screenplays | Can we eat a doctor and get a stethoscope so I can hear my heart not beating? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown is the back of a female patient with a doctor who is using a stethoscope to listen to her lungs. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Postgraduates at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital are taught cardiac auscultation with the aid of a multi-channel stethoscope. / WHO/College of Medicine, University of Lagos photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | The stethoscope also picks up the abnormal heart sounds indicative of heart failure. (references) | |
Sometimes an arrhythmia can be detected by listening to the heart with a stethoscope. (references) | ||
In some cases, the valve may leak, creating a "heart murmur," which a doctor can hear with a stethoscope. (references) | ||
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| "Stethoscope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stethoscope" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 68 | 40,606 |
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Beginning with "stethoscope": stethoscope-like. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stethoscope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stetoskop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فحص مريضا بالمسماع, سماعة الطبيب, المسماع (audiometer, earphone, phone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стетоскоп, уред за слушане на гърдите. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 听诊器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stetoskop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stetoskop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stethoscoop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گوشی طبی , گوشی ضربان سنج . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuulotorvi (ear trumpet, receiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stéthoscope. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stethoskop. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στηθοσκόπιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אבוב רופאים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sztetoszkóp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stetoscopio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 聴診器 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちょうし"き. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 청진기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stetascoip, cleayshane cleeau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ethoscopestay estetoscópio (earphone). (various references) stetoscop. (various references) стетоскоп. (various references) stetoskop. (various references) estetoscopio. (various references) stetoskop. (various references) stetoskop. (various references) стетоскоп, дефектоскоп. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | stethos. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stethoscope": stethoscopes. (additional references) | |
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"Stethoscope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stehtoscope, stethascope, stethescope, stethiscope, stethscope. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stethoscope" (pronounced ste"thuskō'p) |
| 5 | -u s k ō' p | gastroscope, gyroscope, horoscope, kaleidoscope, microscope, ophthalmoscope, oscilloscope, periscope, polariscope, telescope. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-o-o-p-s-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: photosets, sheepcots. | |
-3 letters: heptoses, hotspots, photoset, potshots, sheepcot, soothest, toeshoes. | |
-4 letters: chooses, cohosts, ethoses, heptose, hotspot, poetess, pooches, poshest, potshot, septets, soothes, toeshoe, tootses, tosspot. | |
-5 letters: cestos, cheeps, chests, choose, choses, chotts, cohost, cooees, coopts, copses, cosets, coshes, cosset, echoes, epochs, eposes, escots, estops, etches, octets, pestos, photos, posset, pottos, ptoses, scoops, scoots, scopes. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-o-o-p-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: stethoscopes. | |
+4 letters: ecocatastrophes. | |
+5 letters: photochemistries. | |
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