The act of listening - such as hearing the heartbeat or lungs to aid in diagnosis of certain disorders.
Auscultation
The prefix of auscultation is "auscult-". The suffix of auscultation is "-ation".
In the word auscultation, there is a minor accent on the first syllable (aus) and a major accent on the third syllable (ta).
Auscultation is one way to determine a patients health.
"Pulmonary auscultation" is a fancy way of saying "listening to the lungs with a stethoscope."
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.
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
Cardiac auscultation is the medical term meaning listening to the heart.
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The appropriate steps to take when examining a patient are inspection, auscultation, palpation and percussion.
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I would say: On auscultation, basal rales were heard bilaterally/confined to the L/R lung.