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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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Therefore, when auscultating elderly patients or patients with chronic respiratory problems, they should be encouraged to inspire using a higher flow or to inspire to a relatively deeper lung volume to permit appropriate assessment of the quality of lung sound.
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The picture shows a kindly pediatrician auscultating a girl's doll with an old-fashioned stethoscope.
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