auscultate

auscultate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from auscultation.

Verb

auscultate (third-person singular simple present auscultates, present participle auscultating, simple past and past participle auscultated)

1. To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
   • 1969, Hortense Calisher, The New Yorkers, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 3, p. 123,

     The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating.

Translations

to practice auscultation

Arabic: تَسَمَّعَ‎ (tasammaʿa) Bulgarian: преслушвам (preslušvam) Catalan: auscultar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 聽診／听诊 (zh) (tīngzhěn) Dutch: ausculteren (nl) Finnish: auskultoida (fi), kuunnella (fi) French: ausculter (fr) German: abhören (de), abhorchen (de), (medical jargon) auskultieren (de) Greek: ακροάζομαι (el) (akroázomai) Ido: auskultar (io) Japanese: 聴診する (ja) (ちょうしんする, chōshin-surú) Macedonian: аускултира (auskultira) Polish: auskultować impf, wyauskultować pf (dated) Portuguese: auscultar (pt) Russian: слу́шать (ru) (slúšatʹ), выслу́шивать (ru) (vyslúšivatʹ), прослу́шивать (ru) (proslúšivatʹ) Spanish: auscultar (es)

References

• auscultate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Italian

Verb

auscultate

1. inflection of auscultare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

auscultate f pl

1. feminine plural of auscultato

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Latin

Verb

auscultāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of auscultō