Stethoscope

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 More General Terms 3 Additional Terms 4 References

Introduction

• An instrument invented by Rene Laennec for listening to respiratory & cardiac sounds in the chest, now modified & used in various ways for auscultation of vascular & other sounds in various parts of the body.

More General Terms

• device (medical device)

Additional Terms

• auscultation
• Laennec, Rene R.T.

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995

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