auscultate

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I have palpated cancer, seen the havoc it wreaks under a microscope, and auscultated the damage it inflicts on the body’s organs.

From New York Times

"Although patients think they are going to be suffocated during a paroxysm, the chest is normally resonant on percussion, and if it be auscultated as they draw in breath again vesicular breathing is heard everywhere."

From Project Gutenberg

In auscultating the heart I prefer the binaural stethoscope of the Ford pattern.

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If a student can auscultate correctly, or make up a prescription, at an examination, he will in all probability be able to do so in other circumstances.

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It was therefore necessary to demolish, as we proceeded, a great part of the ship’s inner skin and fittings, and to auscultate what remained, like a doctor sounding for a lung disease.

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