DEFINITIONnouna medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing, typically having a smalldisc-shaped resonator that is placed against the chest, and two tubes connected to earpieces.
ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French stéthoscope, from Greekstēthos ‘breast’ + skopein ‘look at’.
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