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nouna medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the bodytype of:
Definition that contains stethoscope
- rattling a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
- rattle a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
- rale a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
- auscultation listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)
- rhonchus a sound like whistling or snoring that is heard with a stethoscope during expiration as air passes through obstructed channels
- fetoscope a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat
- foetoscope a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat
- wheeziness presence of abnormal high-pitched sound heard with a stethoscope when an airway is blocked (as in asthma or chronic bronchitis)