stethoscope

See also: stéthoscope

English

Modern stethoscope

Etymology

Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, equivalent to stetho- +‎ -scope.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛθəskəʊp/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛθəsˌkoʊp/

Noun

stethoscope (plural stethoscopes)

1. (medicine) A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.

Derived terms

• Pinard fetal stethoscope
• stethoscopic
• stethoscopical
• stethoscopically
• stethoscopy

 

Descendants

• → Welsh: stethosgop

Translations

medical instrument

• Afrikaans: stetoskoop
• Albanian: stetoskop (sq) m
• Arabic: سَمَّاعَةُ الطَّبِيب f (sammāʕatu ṭ-ṭabīb), مِسْمَاعُ الصَّدْر m (mismāʕu ṣ-ṣadr)

  Moroccan Arabic: صناتة f (ṣannāta)

• Armenian: ստետոսկոպ (stetoskop)
• Asturian: estetoscopiu m
• Azerbaijani: stetoskop
• Basque: estetoskopio
• Bavarian: Stethoskop
• Belarusian: стэтаско́п m (stetaskóp)
• Bengali: স্টেথোস্কোপ (bn) (sṭethōskōp)
• Breton: selaouenner m
• Bulgarian: стетоско́п m (stetoskóp)
• Burmese: နားကြပ် (my) (na:krap)
• Catalan: estetoscopi m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 聽診器／听诊器 (teng¹ can² hei³), 聽筒／听筒 (teng¹ tung²)

  Hokkien: 聽診器／听诊器 (thiaⁿ-chín-khì), 聽筒／听筒 (thiaⁿ-tâng)

  Mandarin: 聽診器／听诊器 (zh) (tīngzhěnqì)

• Czech: stetoskop m
• Danish: stetoskop (da) n
• Dutch: stethoscoop (nl) m
• Esperanto: stetoskopo
• Estonian: stetoskoop
• Faroese: lurt n
• Finnish: stetoskooppi (fi)
• French: stéthoscope (fr) m
• Galician: estetoscopio m
• Georgian: სტეტოსკოპი (sṭeṭosḳoṗi)
• German: Stethoskop (de) n
• Greek: στηθοσκόπιο (el) n (stithoskópio)
• Gujarati: ઉરોદર્શક (urodarśak), સ્ટેથોસ્કોપ (sṭethoskop)
• Hebrew: סְטֶתוֹסְקוֹפ (he) m (stetoskop)
• Hindi: स्टेथोस्कोप m (sṭethoskop), परिश्रावक (pariśrāvak)
• Hungarian: sztetoszkóp (hu)
• Icelandic: hlustunarpípa f
• Ido: stetoskopo (io), auskultilo (io)
• Indonesian: stetoskop (id)
• Irish: steiteascóp m
• Italian: stetoscopio (it) m
• Japanese: 聴診器 (ja) (ちょうしんき, chōshinki)
• Kannada: ಬಡಿತಕೇಳುಕ (kn) (baḍitakēḷuka), ಬಡಿತ ಆಲಿಸುಕ (kn) (baḍita ālisuka)
• Kashubian: stetoskòp
• Kazakh: стетоскоп (stetoskop)
• Khmer: ស្តេតូ (steetou), ឧរាទស្សន៍ (ʼŏréatssân៍)
• Korean: 청진기 (ko) (cheongjin'gi)
• Latin: stethoscopium n
• Latvian: stetoskops m
• Lithuanian: stetoskopas m
• Luxembourgish: Stethoskop m
• Macedonian: стетоскоп m (stetoskop)
• Malagasy: fihainoana (mg)
• Malay: stetoskop
• Malayalam: സ്റ്റെതസ്കോപ്പ് (sṟṟetaskōppŭ)
• Manx: stetascoip m
• Marathi: स्टेथोस्कोप m (sṭethoskop)
• Northern Sami: stetoskohppa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stetoskop n

  Nynorsk: stetoskop n

• Occitan: estetoscòpi m
• Persian: گوشی پزشکی (gôši-pezeški), استِتوسکوپ (fa)
• Picard: ascoutiau
• Polish: stetoskop (pl) m, słuchawka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estetoscópio (pt) m
• Romanian: stetoscop (ro) n
• Russian: стетоско́п (ru) m (stetoskóp)
• Sanskrit: स्पन्दमापिनी (spandamāpinī)
• Scottish Gaelic: steatasgop m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сте̏тоскоп m

  Roman: stȅtoskop (sh) m

• Sinhalese: වෙදනලාව (wedanalāwa)
• Slovak: stetoskop (sk) m
• Slovene: stetoskóp m, stetoskòp m
• Spanish: estetoscopio (es) m
• Sundanese: stétoskop
• Swedish: stetoskop (sv) n
• Tagalog: diblinig, estetoskopyo, istetoskop
• Tamil: சப்தசோதனைக்குழல் (ta) (captacōtaṉaikkuḻal), இதயத்துடிப்பு மானி (itayattuṭippu māṉi)
• Telugu: స్టెతస్కోప్ (sṭetaskōp)
• Thai: เครื่องฟังตรวจ (krêuang fang dtrùat)
• Turkish: stetoskop (tr)
• Ukrainian: стетоско́п m (stetoskóp)
• Uzbek: stetoskop
• Vietnamese: ống nghe (vi)
• Walloon: aschoûtrece (wa) f, aschoutea m (neologisms)
• Waray-Waray: estetoskopyo
• Welsh: stethosgop m, stethosgob m
• West Frisian: stetoskoop

Verb

stethoscope (third-person singular simple present stethoscopes, present participle stethoscoping, simple past and past participle stethoscoped)

1. (transitive) To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
   • 1852, Marmion Wilme Savage, Reuben Medlicott; or, the Coming Man:

     you wish me to submit to be stethoscoped; if so, you shall be gratified, although the prospect of undergoing that, or any other operation at Mr. Pigwidgeon's hands, is not the most agreeable