Auscultation

Definition: Auscultation

Auscultation

Noun

1. Listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope).

Date "auscultation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Auscultation \Aus`cul*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression ausculcatio, from auscultare to listen, from diminutive of auris, originally ausis, ear. See Auricle, and compare to Scout, noun.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Health	Act of listening for sounds within the body. (references)
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Crosswords: Auscultation

English words defined with "auscultation": amphoric, auscultate, Auscultator, auscultatory ♦ Bronchophony ♦ Cardiometry, Cavernous respiration, crepitation rale ♦ Pectoriloquy ♦ Tubular breathing ♦ Venous hum, Vesicular murmur, Vocal resonance. (references)

Specialty definitions using "auscultation": contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, contagious caprine/ovine pleuropneumonia, contagious ovine pleuropneumonia ♦ Heart Murmurs ♦ Mycoplasma mycoides var.capri infection ♦ Rales, Respiratory Sounds. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Auscultation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (auscultation).

Domain	Title
Books	A Handbook On Cardiac Auscultation (reference) Auscultation of the heart (reference) Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds (reference) Cardiac Auscultation (reference) Clinical Auscultation of The Cardiovascular System (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	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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"Auscultation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Auscultation" is used about 10 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%	10	111,207

Expression using "auscultation": Heart Auscultation. Additional references.
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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 "auscultation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dëgjim (audition, ear, hearing, listening). (various references)

Arabic		‏التسمع. (various references)

Bulgarian		аускулация, преслушване. (various references)

Czech		vyšetření poslechem. (various references)

Danish		auskultation. (various references)

Dutch		auscultatie. (various references)

French		auscultation. (various references)

German		Auskultation. (various references)

Greek		στηθοσκόπησισ, ακρόαση (hearing). (various references)

Hebrew		שמיע�" (audition, hearing, listening), אזי� �". (various references)

Hungarian		hallgatózás (eavesdropping, sounding), elõjel (augury, bode, foreshadow, foretoken, harbinger, portent, precursor, premonition, presage, prognostic, prognostication). (various references)

Italian		auscultazione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		聴診 (listening to a person's chest with a stethoscope). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ちょうし�" (a courtier, favored retainer, high stature, listening to a person's chest with a stethoscope, longhand, preparation, procurement, supplying, tall figure). (various references)

Manx		eishtaghys, cleeau-eaishtagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		auscultationay

Portuguese		auscultação (sounding). (various references)

Russian		выслушивание. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		auskultacija, vrsta pregleda. (various references)

Spanish		auscultación (condition survey, monitoring). (various references)

Swedish		auskultation (attending classes as an observer). (various references)

Turkish		steteskop ile dinleme, dinleme (hearing, listening, oyer). (various references)

Ukrainian		вислухування, аускультація. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "auscultation": auscultations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Auscultation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ascultation, ausculation, oscultation. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "auscultation" (pronounced 'Aus`cul*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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	-2 letters: actuations, lactations, salutation.
	-3 letters: actuation, atonalist, causation, coattails, lactation, saltation, stational, suctional, tailcoats.
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	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-o-s-t-t-u-u"
	+1 letter: auscultations.
	+2 letters: acculturations.
	+4 letters: intracutaneously.
	+5 letters: structuralization.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
auscultation	64
auscultation pulmonary	18
auscultation lung	9
cardiac auscultation	5
heart auscultation	3
auscultation chest	2
auscultation topless	2
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Auscultation

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Auscultation

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