A stethoscope is an instrument that a doctor uses to listen to your heart and breathing. It consists of a small disc that is placed on your body, connected to a hollow tube with two pieces that the doctor puts in his or her ears
-An instrument doctors and nurses use to listen to sounds inside your body They put one end in their ears and touch the other end on your skin to listen to your heartbeat, breathing etc
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
Say: steth-a-scope When you go to the doctor he or she will probably use something called a stethoscope to hear the sounds that the inside of your body makes Usually, we can't hear these sounds very well, but with a stethoscope, the sounds get a whole lot louder! With it, the doctor can hear sounds like your heartbeat, the air going in and out of your lungs, tummy gurgles, and other wonderful noises that tell a doctor how things are working inside
-A doctor's instrument for hearing internal body sounds Listening to sounds made by various cardiac structures to identify abnormal heart valves, weakened heart muscle, and congenital heart disease is called "auscultation "