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Also known as phonendoscope, stethoscopes

The stethoscope (from Ancient Greek () and () ) is a medical device for auscultation, or listening to internal sounds of an animal or human body. It typically has a small disc-shaped resonator that is placed against the naked skin, with either one or two tubes connected to two earpieces. A stethoscope can be used to listen to the sounds made by the heart, lungs or intestines, as well as blood flow in arteries and veins. In combination with a manual sphygmomanometer, it is commonly used when measuring blood pressure. It was invented in 1816 by René Laennec and the binaural version by Arthur Lea

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A stethoscope is a medical instrument that allows doctors to listen to internal sounds in the body, such as heartbeats, breathing, and blood flow, by placing a small disc against the skin and using earpieces to hear the sounds. It has been an essential diagnostic tool since its invention in 1816 and remains widely used today, particularly when checking heart and lung health or measuring blood pressure.

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Vinony's link graph records 372 inbound references to stethoscope, and connects out to medical device, dyspnea and snoring.

It is catalogued under topics including 1816 introductions, French inventions and Listening.

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Key facts

Machine.image: Stethoscope-2.png
Machine.caption: Modern stethoscope
Machine.classification: Medical device
Machine.industry: Medicine
Machine.application: Auscultation
Machine.inventor: René Laennec in 1816; binaural version by Arthur Leared in 1851

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Research

3,002 papers

The Stethoscope.JAMA · 2022Burger JDOI: 10.1001/jama.2022.9006
Persistent Value of the Stethoscope in the Age of COVID-19.ReviewThe American journal of medicine · 2020Vasudevan RS, Horiuchi Y, Torriani FJ et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.05.018
Stethoscope barriers narrative review; It's time for a strategy unfriendly to multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs).ReviewJournal of infection and public health · 2024Peacock WF, Dhand A, Albert NM et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2024.03.026
Bring out the stethoscope.Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) · 2020Wilsher ML, Beckert LDOI: 10.1111/resp.13906
Update on echocardiography: do we still need a stethoscope?ReviewInternal medicine journal · 2022McLeod P, Beck SDOI: 10.1111/imj.15650
[Smartphone-the stethoscope of the twenty-first century].ReviewDer Internist · 2019Bartmann FDOI: 10.1007/s00108-018-0525-z
The Power of the Stethoscope.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Hall JDDOI: 10.1007/s11606-022-08012-3
The pretracheal stethoscope useful, but not a necessity.ReviewPaediatric anaesthesia · 2016Peyton J, Cravero JPDOI: 10.1111/pan.12842

Wikidata facts

Image: 2023 Stetoskop.jpg
Has use: auscultation

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exact match: wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/04317175-n
Commons category: Stethoscopes
described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
discoverer or inventor: René Laennec
Commons gallery: Stethoscope
Unicode character: 🩺
WordLift URL: data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/stethoscope
significant person: René Laennec

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
Binaural devices
Current practice
Types
Acoustic
Electronic{{anchor|Digital Stethoscope|Electronic Stethoschope}}
Recording
Fetal
Doppler
3D-printed
Esophageal
Earpieces
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The stethoscope (from Ancient Greek () and () ) is a medical device for auscultation, or listening to internal sounds of an animal or human body. It typically has a small disc-shaped resonator that is placed against the naked skin, with either one or two tubes connected to two earpieces. A stethoscope can be used to listen to the sounds made by the heart, lungs or intestines, as well as blood flow in arteries and veins. In combination with a manual sphygmomanometer, it is commonly used when measuring blood pressure. It was invented in 1816 by René Laennec and the binaural version by Arthur Leared in 1851.

A stethoscope that intensifies auscultatory sounds is called a phonendoscope.

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