stethoscope Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body

WordNet

Steth"o*scope noun
Etymology
Gr. the breast + -scope: cf. F. stéthoscope.
Definitions
  1. (Med.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.
Steth"o*scope transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. M. W. Savage.

Webster 1913