On percussion of the chest dullness is found over the inflamed areas; onauscultation at the base of the neck over the trachea a tubular murmur is heard.
By auscultation important information may be gained.
Auscultation consists in the examination of the lungs with the ear applied closely to the chest wall.
With this we find an irregular movement of the flanks, and on auscultation of the lungs we find sibilant or at times a few mucous râles.
Auscultation may detect the enfeebled heart-beat, while the electric battery can elicit any existing muscular contractility.
Auscultation may give startling results, and the body yet be absolutely dead.
Care must be taken that the lumen of the catheter is not obstructed, and that the compressed air bag and auscultation tube are also in working order.
In this position the sounds referred to the examiner’s ear through the auscultation tube during the act of inflation differ from the normal sounds in that they are soft and distant.
After the tip of the bougie has passed through the isthmus the surgeon will hear its movements through the auscultation tube as a rub or crackling sound.
Defn: 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.
Defn: An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed.
This perfected the methods of physical diagnosis of diseases of the chest in all essentials; and from that day till this percussion and auscultation have held an unquestioned place in the regular armamentarium of the physician.
Gallavardin has especially studied the tachycardial cases revealed by the war, cases in which auscultation is frequently unable to detect aught.
During further examination it was noted that in auscultation the head of the examiner was lifted, as if there were hypertrophy of the heart or an aortic aneurysm.
Young speaks of a woman who three months previously had aborted a three months' fetus, but a tumor still remained in the abdomen, the auscultation of which gave evidence of a fetal heart-beat.
The breath-sounds on auscultation and the difficulty in swallowing led to the belief that one of the bronchi was blocked by the pressure of a hematoma.
Valvular lesions are detected on auscultation over appropriate areas by the blowing sounds or murmurs to which they give rise, which modify or replace the normal heart sounds.
If, after repeated and careful auscultation of the abdomen, the well-practised ear can no where detect a trace of the foetal pulsations, it may be asserted on very safe grounds that the foetus has ceased to live.
Auscultation and percussion of the lungs may yield unsatisfactory results when the metastatic abscesses are small and scattered, for the same reason as in miliary tuberculosis.
Bronchitis is so common an accompaniment of typhoid fever that auscultation rarely fails to reveal its presence in some form or other.
Expectoration is scanty, and auscultation reveals a harsh vesicular murmur or else sibilant râles.
Here, too, auscultation and percussion are of little assistance in establishing a diagnosis when there is a laryngeal diphtheria at the same time, for the above reasons.
If the cough be due to bronchitis, we find on auscultation the physical signs of that affection.
On auscultation the second sound at the aortic cartilage is ringing, clear, and accentuated.
In all high pulse pressure cases one will find on careful auscultation over the manubrium, particularly its lower half, breath sounds which vary from bronchial to intensely tubular.
Auscultation of the lungs can be practised to an advantage over the outlined portion of the chest wall, only.
Auscultation of the lungs is of great value in diagnosing and watching the progress of the disease.
But in addition to these its main uses, auscultation is found to render great assistance in the investigation of many obscure internal affections, such as aneurysms and certain diseases of the oesophagus and stomach.
The numerous diseases affecting the lungs can now be recognized and discriminated from each other with a precision which, but for auscultation and the stethoscope, would have been altogether unattainable.
Laennec quotes a sentence from Hippocrates which, if it had been worthily studied, might have led to the full discovery of auscultation [trained listening to sounds].
Our knowledge of diseases of the heart and lungs has been greatly expanded during the century by auscultation [trained listening to sounds] and percussion, and especially by the use of the stethoscope.
Such expectoration leads to theauscultation of sub-crepitant rales, sounding liquid and gurgling, having some analogy to the moist sounds of tuberculosis.
He shook his head after looking at it, and then said, "I generally examine the patient by auscultation myself before I give any opinion.
You say that your doctor is an old practitioner, but auscultation is a recent discovery and if Hippocrates and Galen had to speak on the subject they would certainly commit themselves deeply.
Auscultation is the act of listening, and may be either mediate or immediate.
Percussion and auscultation aid in making a diagnosis in this condition.
On auscultationcrepitation will be observed over the portion of the lung affected.
Mediate auscultation is accomplished by aid of an instrument known as the stethoscope, one extremity of which is applied to the ear and the other to the chest of the animal.
Auscultation is resorted to in cardiac and certain abdominal diseases, but it is mainly employed for determining the condition of the lungs and air passages.
Auscultation and percussion greatly aid us in a diagnosis.
The extremities are hot and cold alternately; the crepitation which was present in the first stage is now absent, and no sound on auscultation is heard, unless it is a slight wheezing or whistling noise.
In immediateauscultation the ear is applied directly to the part.
Auscultation and percussion are the chief methods used to determine the various pathological changes that occur in the respiratory organs.
The exploration of the chest of the dog by auscultation is a beautiful as well as wonderful thing.
Ballotment and Auscultation both, now afford unmistakeable evidences as to the condition of the patient.
Auscultation is distinct enough, but not more so than at the previous period.
Auscultation also becomes more positive, the sounds being louder and more easily ascertained.
Auscultation is now the surest dependence however, and may be advantageously resorted to also as a means of determining beforehand the position of the child.
When this has been listened to for some time, the ear will be able to catch any similar sound, and the auscultation may then be practised to detect pregnancy.
In conducting the auscultation the female must recline, and keep as still as possible, breathing low.
The fore-finger being introduced, ballotment may be practised, to ascertain if pregnancy really exists; and if the evidence from this source is not sufficient, auscultation must be resorted to.
An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed.
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.
You say that your doctor is an old practitioner, but auscultation is a recent discovery and if Hippocrates and Galen, had to speak on the subject they would certainly commit themselves deeply.
There are some sounds to be heard that with careful auscultation are quite typical, and one very rarely gets them so distinct.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "auscultation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: attention; audition; ear; heeding; listening
