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STETHOSCOPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stethoscope" is a kind of...):
medical instrument (instrument used in the practice of medicine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stethoscope"):
fetoscope; foetoscope (a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat)
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