auscultate
English edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from auscultation.
Verb edit
auscultate (third-person singular simple present auscultates, present participle auscultating, simple past and past participle auscultated)
- To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
- 1969, Hortense Calisher, chapter 3, in The New Yorkers,[1], Boston: Little, Brown, page 123:
- The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating.
Translations edit
to practice auscultation
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References edit
- “auscultate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
auscultate
- inflection of auscultare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
auscultate f pl
Latin edit
Verb edit
auscultāte
Spanish edit
Verb edit
auscultate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of auscultar combined with te