stethoscope• Apply a stethoscope to the Torychest as he speaks.• It could've been any doctor, and it might not've been a stethoscope.• Putting on her stethoscope, she sounded his heart very carefully, then lifted his lips and looked at his gums.• She has with her his stethoscope, which she hands him.• In a normallabourintermittent auscultation with a Pinard stethoscope could not be regarded as an inadequate or negligent form of assessment.• Leaning against the Ping-Pong table, he picked up the stethoscope and felt its peculiarrubberytubes.• Primo is sitting on the living room couch, listening to his own heart with the stethoscope.
Originstethoscope
(1800-1900)Frenchstéthoscope, from Greekstethos“chest” + French-scope