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Pertaining to the instrument used in auscultation to convey sounds in the chest or other parts of the body to the ear of the examiner.

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  • When the froth hits the heart, it makes a real racket in a stethoscopic pickup.
  • A receiving diaphragm is placed in another and near-by chamber, which is provided with very sensitive stethoscopic ear-pieces, by which the
  • 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.
  • 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.
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