ausculto-, auscult- +

1. To listen to the sounds made by the internal organs of the body for diagnostic purposes.
2. To examine by listening, usually to the sounds of the thoracic or abdominal viscera, with or without a stethoscope.

Nurses and doctors usually auscultate the lungs and heart of a patient by using a stethoscope placed on the patient's chest.

Examined by auscultation.

The act of listening for sounds within the body, chiefly for determining the condition of the lungs, heart, pleura, abdomen, and other organs, and for the detection of pregnancy.

1. Someone who practices auscultation.
2. A person who performs auscultation.

A reference to or pertaining to the act of listening to sounds arising within organs; such as, the lungs, as an aid to medical diagnosis and treatment.

A rale (intermittent crackling or bubbling sound produced by fluid in the air passages and air sacs of the lungs), murmur (soft blowing or fluttering sound), bruit (significant sound heard inside the body caused by turbulent blood flow within the heart or blood vessels), fremitus (vibration or tremor, resulting from a physical action such as speaking or coughing, felt by hand and used to assess whether the chest is affected by disease), or other sounds heard during the auscultation examinations of the chest or abdomen.

An instrument for use in both auscultation and percussion of bodily examinations.

A stethoscopic device that intensifies auscultatory sounds, consisting of a shallow metal cup closed by a diaphragm.

Auscultation of body areas performed without the stethoscope.

Auscultatory percussion done by tapping with one forefinger the second joint of the other forefinger applied perpendicularly to the body part being examined.

Auscultation performed by the aid of an instrument (stethoscope) interposed between the ear and the body part being examined.

Auscultation in pregnancy for the study of the sounds of the fetal heart.