auscultation
Noun
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Listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) (synset 100878220)
is a type of:
- diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique - a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis
- hearing, listening - the act of hearing attentively
subtypes:- percussion, pleximetry - tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes
- succussion - shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity
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