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AUSCULTATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they auscultate ... he / she / it auscultates
Past simple: auscultated
Past participle: auscultated
-ing form: auscultating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Examine by auscultation
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "auscultate" is one way to...):
examine; see (observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
auscultation (listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope))
