auscultation
- n listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)
- Unfortunately, the art of auscultation, the technical term for listening to those sounds, is slowly dying.
- The lungs were clear to auscultation.
- Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826), French, invented the stethoscope; discovered auscultation; was a specialist on local diagnosis.