Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to stethoscopy or the stethoscope; obtained by means of the stethoscope.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope.

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  • adjective using a stethoscope

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Examples

  • When the froth hits the heart, it makes a real racket in a stethoscopic pickup.

    Something I Didn't Know eddvick 2006

  • She continued the stethoscopic exam, exploring the heart sounds from the front, then asking Mrs. Blaylock to turn over and completing the procedure for both heart and lung on the back.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • She continued the stethoscopic exam, exploring the heart sounds from the front, then asking Mrs. Blaylock to turn over and completing the procedure for both heart and lung on the back.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • She continued the stethoscopic exam, exploring the heart sounds from the front, then asking Mrs. Blaylock to turn over and completing the procedure for both heart and lung on the back.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • She continued the stethoscopic exam, exploring the heart sounds from the front, then asking Mrs. Blaylock to turn over and completing the procedure for both heart and lung on the back.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • A receiving diaphragm is placed in another and near-by chamber, which is provided with very sensitive stethoscopic ear-pieces, by which the Morse characters sent from another vessel may be received.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • A receiving diaphragm is placed in another and near-by chamber, which is provided with very sensitive stethoscopic ear-pieces, by which the

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • And the patient was so weak that during the stethoscopic examination her head fell from side to side as she was moved, and when the doctor pressed her right side her moans were pregnant with pain.

    Muslin 1892

  • The pulse was perfectly natural, as were also the sounds of the lungs and heart, so far as I was enabled to make a stethoscopic examination.

    Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology William Alexander Hammond 1864

  • One of his papers was on the health of Cornish tin and copper miners, including studies of their working conditions and the stethoscopic signs of pulmonary tuberculosis.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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