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Auscultation is the method of listening to the sounds of the body during a physical examination.

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Auscultation is usually done using a tool called a stethoscope. Health care providers routinely listen to a patient's lungs, heart, and intestines to evaluate the frequency, intensity, duration, number, and quality of sounds.

Health care providers also use auscultation to listen to the heart sounds of unborn infants. This can be performed with a stethoscope or with sound waves (called Doppler ultrasound). It can also be used to hear pulses in the hands and feet.

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Assessing a patient through a stethoscope is called?

Auscultation


What is the suffix and prefix of auscultation?

The prefix of auscultation is "auscult-". The suffix of auscultation is "-ation".


What is the suffix auscultation?

In the word auscultation, there is a minor accent on the first syllable (aus) and a major accent on the third syllable (ta).


How do you use the word auscultation in a sentence?

Auscultation is one way to determine a patients health.


What is pulmonary auscultation?

"Pulmonary auscultation" is a fancy way of saying "listening to the lungs with a stethoscope."


What is the medical term meaning a method of physical assessment using a stethoscope to listen to sounds within the chest?

This is called auscultation, and is used most often to listen for heart and lung sounds. You can also ausculate the abdomen to listen for stomach and bowel sounds.


What has the author Henry Marshall Hughes written?

Henry Marshall Hughes has written: 'A clinical introduction to the practice of auscultation, and other modes of physical diagnosis' -- subject(s): Auscultation, Percussion, Chest, Diseases 'A clinical introduction to the practice of auscultation' -- subject(s): Auscultation


What is the Medical term meaning listening to the heart?

Cardiac auscultation is the medical term meaning listening to the heart.


What is an example sentence for auscultation?

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What are the remaining steps while examining patient except auscultation palpation?

The appropriate steps to take when examining a patient are inspection, auscultation, palpation and percussion.


What is abnormal respiratory sound heard on auscultation?

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Is it grammatically correct to say On auscultation rales were heard at the lung basis?

I would say: On auscultation, basal rales were heard bilaterally/confined to the L/R lung.