When the froth hits the heart, it makes a real racket in a stethoscopic pickup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something I Didn't Know] Reference

A receiving diaphragm is placed in another and near-by chamber, which is provided with very sensitive stethoscopic ear-pieces, by which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muslin] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2] Reference

And rapidly, with a series of ritual gestures, he uncoiled two wires connected to the portable battery buckled round his waist; plugged them simultaneously into the sides of his aluminum hat; touched a spring on the crown–and antennæ shot up into the air; touched another spring on the peak of the brim–and, like a jack-in-the-box, out jumped a microphone and hung there, quivering, six inches in front of his nose; pulled down a pair of receivers over his ears; pressed a switch on the left side of the hat-and from within came a faint waspy buzzing; turned a knob on the right–and the buzzing was interrupted by a stethoscopic wheeze and cackle, by hiccoughs and sudden squeaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brave New World]