\Steth"o*scope\, n. [Gr. ? the breast + -scope: cf.
F. st['e]thoscope.] (Med.)
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.

\Steth"o*scope\, v. t.
To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. --M. W.
Savage.