Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to auscultation; auscultative.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to auscultation.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to auscultation.

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  • adjective of or relating to auscultation

Etymologies

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Probably from Latin auscultātor ("listener, heeder") +‎ -y

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Examples

  • The older "auscultatory" method (from the Latin word for listening) uses a stethoscope and

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • The symptoms and auscultatory signs of chronic bronchitis are on the whole similar to those pertaining to the acute form, except that the febrile disturbance and pain are much less marked.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • The signs of diagnostic importance are chiefly those of partial or complete bronchial obstruction, though a non-obstructive foreign body, a pin for instance, may cause limited expansion (McCrae) or, rarely, a peculiar rale or a peculiar auscultatory sound.

    Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

  • Researchers testing blood pressure medications in large clinical trials have generally used the older auscultatory technique, Kloner noted in an interview, but the mercury manometers are

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • Kloner and his team compared auscultatory and oscillometric measurement by linking both devices to a single blood pressure cuff, making it possible to compare measurements for the same patient, for the same heartbeat.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • Although congestive heart failure (CHF) patients typically present with abnormal auscultatory findings on lung examination, respiratory sounds are not normally subjected to additional analysis.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Five hundred repetitions of four basic cardiac murmurs significantly improved auscultatory proficiency in recognizing basic cardiac murmurs by medical students.

    Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog M.D. Ves Dimov 2010

  • Five hundred repetitions of four basic cardiac murmurs significantly improved auscultatory proficiency in recognizing basic cardiac murmurs by medical students.

    Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog M.D. Ves Dimov 2010

  • Conventional sphygmomanometry: technique of auscultatory blood pressure measurement.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Conventional sphygmomanometry: technique of auscultatory blood pressure measurement.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

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