See also:

• STETHOSCOPE (Gr. vrijOos, chest, and UK07r6.v, to look, examine)

STETHOSCOPE (Gr. vrijOos, See also:

• CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest, and UK07r6.v, to look, examine)  , a medical See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument used in See also:

• AUSCULTATION (from Lat. auscultare, to listen)

auscultation (q.v.) . The single See also:

• STETHOSCOPE (Gr. vrijOos, chest, and UK07r6.v, to look, examine)

stethoscope is a straight wooden or See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal See also:

• TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube with a flattened See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

bell, the See also:

• SURFACE

surface of which is usually covered with See also:

• IVORY (Fr. ivoire, Lat. ebur)
• IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765-1842)

ivory or See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

bone at the end which is placed against the See also:

• BODY

body of the patient, and a small See also:

• CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

cup at the other to See also:

• FIT

fit- the See also:

• EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

ear of the observer . In the " binaural " stethoscope, which has the See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage of flexibility, the tube is divided above the bell into two flexible tubes which See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead to both ears .