auscultate
English
Etymology
Back-formation from auscultation.
Verb
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,, Boston: Little, Brown, page 123:
- The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating.
Translations
to practice auscultation
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References
- “auscultate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
Verb
auscultate
- inflection of auscultare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
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