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    The stethoscope is a medical device for auscultation, or listening to internal sounds of an animal or human body. It typically has a small disc-shaped...
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    A Pinard horn is a type of stethoscope used to listen to the heart rate of a fetus during pregnancy. It is a hollow horn, often made of wood or metal...
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    Normal heart sounds of a 16 year old female at rest, as heard with a stethoscope. Problems playing these files? See media help. Heart sounds are the noises...
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    musician. His skill at carving his own wooden flutes led him to invent the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker. He pioneered its use in...
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  • band, with Waters creating the sole remaining composition "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk". Mason recalled how the album "was recorded in what one might...
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    when turbulent blood flow creates a sound loud enough to hear with a stethoscope. Turbulent blood flow is not smooth. The sound differs from normal heart...
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    healthy 16-year-old's heart while holding her breath, as heard with a stethoscope at the tricuspid valve Problems playing this file? See media help. Auscultation...
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  • medical supplies to impoverished locations, and developed a low-cost stethoscope in 2015. He serves as Associate Professor at the University of Western...
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    sell his stethoscopes. At that time the stethoscope line consisted of two key models, the doctor's stethoscope and the nurse's stethoscope. 3M acquired...
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  • also known as a gastric splash, is a sloshing sound heard through a stethoscope during sudden movement of the patient on abdominal auscultation. It reflects...
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  • Reflex hammer Reflex hammer, queen square Sphygmomanometer, electronic Stethoscope Syringe and needle Thermometers, mercury Tongue depressors Tuning fork...
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    manometer to measure the pressure. Manual sphygmomanometers are used with a stethoscope when using the auscultatory technique. A sphygmomanometer consists of...
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    The auscultatory method (from the Latin word for "listening") uses a stethoscope and a sphygmomanometer. This comprises an inflatable (Riva-Rocci) cuff...
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    such as a rash or bruise, or otherwise detectable such as by using a stethoscope or taking blood pressure. Medical signs, along with symptoms, help in...
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  • The Stethoscope Revolution (Morocco) was a protest movement in 2015 in Morocco by medical school students and other health professionals against a Moroccan...
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  • filmed in Singapore. In 2007, Leong published his first book The Twisted Stethoscope with Marshall Cavendish. "Why Malaysian comic Jason Leong wants Michelle...
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  • the sound may be heard by someone other than the patient by using a stethoscope, in which case it is known as "objective tinnitus." Occasionally, spontaneous...
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  • traditional stethoscopes with a compatible smartphone application. In 2017, Eko received FDA clearance for the DUO, a combined digital stethoscope ECG that...
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    her heart, a systolic murmur and click are heard. Recorded with the stethoscope over the mitral valve. Mitral Valve Prolapse murmur at tricuspid area...
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    by simple but nonspecific means: auscultation of the heartbeat with a stethoscope, or feeling for peripheral pulses. These cannot usually diagnose specific...
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    pleurisy so that the underlying disorder can be treated. A doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to the breathing. This method detects any unusual sounds in...
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    the taking of a medical history, listening to the heart-sounds with a stethoscope, as well as with ECG, and echocardiogram which uses ultrasound. Specialists...
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  • Diabetes at Oregon Health Sciences University. He is the inventor of the Lx Stethoscope, which increased variable frequency sound transfer, and has won various...
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  • and occasionally during exhalation. They are usually heard only with a stethoscope ("on auscultation"). Pulmonary crackles are abnormal breath sounds that...
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  • an increased loudness of whispering noted during auscultation with a stethoscope on the lung fields on a patient's torso. Usually spoken sounds of a whispered...
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    her heart, a systolic murmur and click are heard. Recorded with the stethoscope over the mitral valve. Mitral Valve Prolapse murmur at tricuspid area...
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    causes, e.g. kidney failure, was differentiated in the 19th century. The stethoscope, invented by René Laennec in 1819, x-rays, discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen...
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    auscultation of the respiratory system through the lung fields with a stethoscope as well as from the spectral characteristics of lung sounds. These include...
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  • likely to produce wheezing that may be heard throughout the chest via a stethoscope. Localized processes, such as the occlusion of a portion of the respiratory...
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  • lies prone for 5 minutes Patient then rises onto elbows and knees Apply stethoscope diaphragm to most dependent part of the abdomen Examiner repeatedly flicks...
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