stethoscope
24
3.5
- noun
- /ˈstɛθəˌskoʊp/
- Specialized
:
estetoscopio
- With the stethoscope against the patient's back, the physician listened carefully for any irregular breathing sounds.
- Doppler stethoscope
- wear a stethoscope
The doctor and he put that big cold stethoscope on your back.
- The doctor and he put that big cold stethoscope on your back.
- A human tap on a human, listen to a human with a stethoscope, but I'll take human blood sample and detect a chakra.
Examples
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Hey!" Livermore slapped the cold pickup of the stethoscope against the bare skin of Grazer's chest.
Fiction book (1993) -
We had an electronic stethoscope that gave a tape readout so you could tell how many heartbeats.
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Do you have your stethoscope with you?
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His eyes are closed, and he is listening through a stethoscope to the sounds of his own heart.
Fiction book (1992) -
A nurse stood in the door, a stethoscope around her neck, mouth forming words that would not come.
Fiction book (1999) -
I don't suppose you have a stethoscope with you?
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Lester put the earpieces in and pressed the stethoscope against Ellickson's chest.
Academic text (2010) -
A medic bent over her, his face masked in shadows, applying a stethoscope to her breast.
Fiction book (1992) -
The nurse used a stethoscope to listen to the patient's heart and lungs.
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During the examination, the doctor placed the stethoscope on the child's chest to check for any abnormalities.
Synonyms
2
3.9
A tool doctors use to check, treat, or operate on patients
How Complex
- Specialized
- Specialized
2
5.3
2
3.9
- Specialized
24
3.5
- Specialized
71
4.2
- Specialized
4
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
stethoscope = stetho + scope
Although the word contains the scientific combining form stetho- and the suffix -scope, the overall meaning is not predictable for an average B1 learner from those parts alone.
Etymology
Stethoscope comes from Greek parts: stetho- meaning 'chest' and -scope meaning 'to look' or 'to examine', the same -scope you see in telescope and microscope. So a stethoscope is like a 'looking' tool for the chest, because doctors use it to listen inside the body to check the heart and lungs.