AUSCULTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("auscultation" is a kind of...):

diagnostic procedure; diagnostic technique (a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis)

hearing; listening (the act of hearing attentively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "auscultation"):

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)

Derivation:

auscultate (examine by auscultation)