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fetoscope

fetoscope

8.5
A small instrument placed on a pregnant woman's belly to hear the baby's heartbeat
  • noun
  • /ˈfɛtəˌskoʊp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fetoscopio
  • The doctor placed the fetoscope on her abdomen to listen to the fetal heartbeat.

Examples

  • Past the 20th week of pregnancy, a fetoscope can be used to safely hear the baby's heartbeat.

    Blog text (7)

  • Using a fetoscope, they could hear the baby's heartbeat clearly for the first time.

  • You know that a fetoscope does not measure shoe size.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • With the fetoscope in hand, the nurse monitored the fetal heartbeat during the check-up.

Synonyms

stethoscope
vsfetoscope
  • Specialized
24 3.5

A tool doctors use to listen to the heart and lungs

is made specifically for abdominal placement to hear a fetal heartbeat
fetal monitor
vsfetoscope
  • Specialized
4 4.0

A machine that checks a baby's heartbeat and the mother's contractions during labor

listens directly through the abdomen without electronic recording or continuous tracing
pinard
vsfetoscope
  • Specialized
9.9

A simple hollow instrument midwives put on a pregnant belly to hear the baby's heartbeat

is a flat listening instrument placed on the abdomen rather than a trumpet
electronic fetal monitor
vsfetoscope
  • Specialized
4.3

A machine that uses sensors to watch a baby's heartbeat and mother's contractions during labor

is a non electronic abdominal listening tool rather than a sensor based recorder

How Advanced

electronic fetal monitor
  • Specialized
4.3
fetoscope
  • Specialized
8.5

Surface Forms

fetoscope singular
fetoscopes plural

Morphology

fetoscope = scope (semi-transparent) = feto + scope

The word clearly combines a fetus-related prefix with the instrument suffix/root 'scope', but the exact medical function is specialized rather than fully predictable.

Etymology

Fetoscope has two parts: feto- ('unborn baby') and -scope ('to look' or 'observe'), the same -scope in telescope and microscope. So, a fetoscope is a tool to check or examine the unborn baby, here by placing it on the mother's belly to listen to the heartbeat.