auscultate
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from auscultation.
Verb
editauscultate (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
editto practice auscultation
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References
edit- “auscultate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editauscultate
- inflection of auscultare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editauscultate f pl
Latin
editVerb
editauscultāte
Spanish
editVerb
editauscultate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of auscultar combined with te