Auscultation

Webster's Condensed Dictionary- A Condensed Dictionary of the English Language · 1909 · p. 50

aws-kul-ta's hun, n. Act of listening. (Med.) A method of distinguishing diseases, esp. in the thorax, by observing sounds, esp. by means of the stethoscope. [L. auscultatio, a listening.] — A us cult a'tor, -ter, — A us cult a'tory. a. — Aus'cultate, -tat, v. (Med.) To examine by auscultation.