1. stethoscope - Noun
2. stethoscope - Verb
An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.
To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHe was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart. Gabriel García Márquez
How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses. Fran Lebowitz
Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken? Jennifer Weiner
"Take up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd, 1967) Roger Waters
I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy. Jessye Norman
The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating. Max Lucado