stethoscope

See also: stéthoscope

English

Modern stethoscope

Etymology

Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, equivalent to stetho- +‎ -scope.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛθəskəʊp/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛθəsˌkoʊp/

Noun

stethoscope (plural stethoscopes)

(medicine) A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body, often combined with a sphygmomanometer

Derived terms

Translations

medical instrument

Afrikaans: stetoskoop
Albanian: stetoskop (sq) m
Arabic: سَمَّاعَةُ الطَّبِيب‎ f (sammāʿatu ṭ-ṭabīb), مِسْمَاعُ الصَّدْر‎ m (mismāʿu ṣ-ṣadr)
Moroccan Arabic: سنّاطة‎ f (sənnaṭa)
Armenian: ստետոսկոպ (stetoskop)
Asturian: estetoscopiu m
Azerbaijani: stetoskop
Basque: estetoskopio
Bavarian: Stethoskop
Belarusian: стэтаско́п m (stetaskóp)
Bengali: স্টেথোস্কোপ (sṭethoskop)
Breton: selaouenner m
Bulgarian: стетоско́п m (stetoskóp)
Burmese: နားကြပ် (my) (na:krap)
Catalan: estetoscopi m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 聽診器 (teng¹ can² hei³), 聽筒, 听筒 (teng¹ tung²)

Mandarin: 聽診器 (zh), 听诊器 (zh) (tīngzhěnqì)

Min Nan: 聽診器 (thiaⁿ-chín-khì), 聽筒, 听筒 (thiaⁿ-tâng)
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: סְטֶתוֹסְקוֹפ‎ (he) m (stetoskop)
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)
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 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 (vedanalāva)
Slovak: stetoskop (sk) m
Slovene: stetoskóp m, stetoskòp m
Spanish: estetoscopio (es) m
Sundanese: stétoskop
Swedish: stetoskop (sv) n
Tagalog: diblinig
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

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.
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