stethoscope

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

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

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛθəsˌkoʊp/

stethoscope (plural stethoscopes)

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

• → Welsh: stethosgop

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