English
Etymology
Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, equivalent to stetho- + -scope.
Pronunciation
Noun
stethoscope (plural stethoscopes)
- (medicine) A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
medical instrument
- Afrikaans: stetoskoop
- Albanian: stetoskop (sq) m
- Arabic: سَمَّاعَةُ الطَّبِيب f (sammāʕatu ṭ-ṭabīb), سَمَّاعَة f (sammāʕa), مِسْمَاعُ الصَّدْر m (mismāʕu ṣ-ṣadr)
- Moroccan Arabic: صناتة f (ṣannāta)
- Armenian: ստետոսկոպ (stetoskop)
- Asturian: estetoscopiu m
- Azerbaijani: stetoskop
- Basque: estetoskopio
- Bavarian: Stethoskop
- Belarusian: стэтаско́п m (stetaskóp)
- Bengali: স্টেথোস্কোপ (bn) (sṭethōskōp)
- Breton: selaouenner m
- Bulgarian: стетоско́п m (stetoskóp)
- Burmese: နားကြပ် (my) (na:krap)
- Catalan: estetoscopi m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 聽診器 / 听诊器 (teng1 can2 hei3), 聽筒 / 听筒 (teng1 tung2)
- Hokkien: 聽診器 / 听诊器 (thiaⁿ-chín-khì), 聽筒 / 听筒 (thiaⁿ-tâng)
- Mandarin: 聽診器 / 听诊器 (zh) (tīngzhěnqì)
- Czech: stetoskop m
- Danish: stetoskop (da) n
- Dutch: stethoscoop (nl) m
- Esperanto: stetoskopo
- Estonian: stetoskoop
- Faroese: lurt n
- Finnish: stetoskooppi (fi)
- French: stéthoscope (fr) m
- Galician: estetoscopio m
- Georgian: სტეტოსკოპი (sṭeṭosḳoṗi)
- German: Stethoskop (de) n
- Greek: στηθοσκόπιο (el) n (stithoskópio)
- Gujarati: ઉરોદર્શક (urodarśak), સ્ટેથોસ્કોપ (sṭethoskop)
- Hebrew: סְטֶתוֹסְקוֹפּ (he) m (stetoskóp), סְטָטוֹסְקוֹפּ (he) m (statoskóp) (proscribed), מַסְכֵּת (he) m (maskét)
- Hindi: स्टेथोस्कोप m (sṭethoskop), परिश्रावक (pariśrāvak)
- Hungarian: sztetoszkóp (hu)
- Icelandic: hlustunarpípa f
- Ido: stetoskopo (io), auskultilo (io)
- Indonesian: stetoskop (id)
- Irish: steiteascóp m
- Italian: stetoscopio (it) m
- Japanese: 聴診器 (ja) (ちょうしんき, chōshinki)
- Kannada: ಬಡಿತಕೇಳುಕ (kn) (baḍitakēḷuka), ಬಡಿತ ಆಲಿಸುಕ (kn) (baḍita ālisuka)
- Kashubian: stetoskòp
- Kazakh: стетоскоп (stetoskop)
- Khmer: ស្តេតូ (steetou), ឧរាទស្សន៍ (ʼŏréatssâ
n៍)
- Korean: 청진기 (ko) (cheongjin'gi)
- Latin: stethoscopium n
- Latvian: stetoskops m
- Lithuanian: stetoskopas m
- Luxembourgish: Stethoskop m
- Macedonian: стетоскоп m (stetoskop)
- Malagasy: fihainoana (mg)
- Malay: stetoskop
- Malayalam: സ്റ്റെതസ്കോപ്പ് (sṟṟetaskōppŭ)
- Manx: stetascoip m
- Marathi: स्टेथोस्कोप m (sṭethoskop)
- Northern Sami: stetoskohppa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stetoskop n
- Nynorsk: stetoskop n
- Occitan: estetoscòpi m
- Persian: گوشی پزشکی (gôši-pezeški), استِتوسکوپ (fa)
- Picard: ascoutiau
- Polish: stetoskop (pl) m, słuchawka (pl) f
- Portuguese: estetoscópio (pt) m
- Romanian: stetoscop (ro) n
- Russian: стетоско́п (ru) m (stetoskóp)
- Sanskrit: स्पन्दमापिनी (spandamāpinī)
- Scottish Gaelic: steatasgop m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сте̏тоскоп m
- Roman: stȅtoskop (sh) m
- Sinhalese: වෙදනලාව (wedanalāwa)
- Slovak: stetoskop (sk) m
- Slovene: stetoskóp m, stetoskòp m
- Spanish: estetoscopio (es) m
- Sundanese: stétoskop
- Swedish: stetoskop (sv) n
- Tagalog: diblinig, estetoskopyo, istetoskop
- Tamil: சப்தசோதனைக்குழல் (ta) (captacōtaṉaikkuḻal), இதயத்துடிப்பு மானி (itayattuṭippu māṉi)
- Telugu: స్టెతస్కోప్ (sṭetaskōp)
- Thai: เครื่องฟังตรวจ (krêuang fang dtrùat)
- Turkish: stetoskop (tr)
- Ukrainian: стетоско́п m (stetoskóp)
- Uzbek: stetoskop
- Vietnamese: ống nghe (vi)
- Walloon: aschoûtrece (wa) f, aschoutea m (neologisms)
- Waray-Waray: estetoskopyo
- Welsh: stethosgop m, stethosgob m
- West Frisian: stetoskoop
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Verb
stethoscope (third-person singular simple present stethoscopes, present participle stethoscoping, simple past and past participle stethoscoped)
- (transitive) To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
1852, Marmion Wilme Savage, Reuben Medlicott; or, the Coming Man:you wish me to submit to be stethoscoped; if so, you shall be gratified, although the prospect of undergoing that, or any other operation at Mr. Pigwidgeon's hands, is not the most agreeable