HOW TO PRONOUNCE
stethoscope
/ˈstɛθəsˌkoʊp/
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STETH-uh-skohp: the first syllable takes the main stress.
Use the unvoiced th of “thin” after the short e. The final syllable has a long o and a smaller beat; its last e is silent.
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“The nurse placed the stethoscope on the tray.”
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noun
- A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.
verb
- To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
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/ˈstɛθəsˌkoʊp/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Lucy’s heart beat a trifle more audibly to the stethoscope, and her lungs had a perceptible movement.
Neither his hand nor his stethoscope could discover anything that was amiss.
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To dream of a stethoscope, foretells calamity to your hopes and enterprises.
He not only used his stethoscope (which had not become a matter of course in practice at that time), but sat quietly by his patient and watched him.
The clinical recognition of individual diseases had made really very little progress; with the stethoscope begins the day of physical diagnosis.