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auscultation
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auscultation

Procedure for detecting certain defects or conditions by listening for normal and abnormal heart, breath, bowel, fetal, and other sounds in the body. The invention of the stethoscope in 1819 improved and expanded this practice, still very useful despite the great technological advances in other means of diagnosis.
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Resting heart rate was measured by palpation of the radial artery, and blood pressure was auscultated at the brachial artery and measured with a mercury sphygmomanometer.
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