stethoscope

/ˈstɛθəskəʊp/

UK: /ˈstɛθəskəʊp/

stethoscope

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Definition

A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.

Etymology

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