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stethoscope

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstɛθəskəʊp/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈstɛθəsˌkoʊp/
  • CMU ARPABET: S T EH1 TH AH0 S K OW2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A medical instrument used for listening to sounds produced within the body.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: medical instrument

Narrower terms: fetoscope, foetoscope

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, equivalent to stetho- + -scope.

Across languages

Translations

107 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: stetoskoop — medical instrument
  • Albanian: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Arabic: سَمَّاعَةُ الطَّبِيب (sammāʕatu ṭ-ṭabīb) — medical instrument
  • Arabic: سَمَّاعَة (sammāʕa) — medical instrument
  • Arabic: مِسْمَاعُ الصَّدْر (mismāʕu ṣ-ṣadr) — medical instrument
  • Arabic: صناتة (ṣannāta) — medical instrument
  • Armenian: ստետոսկոպ (stetoskop) — medical instrument
  • Asturian: estetoscopiu — medical instrument
  • Azerbaijani: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Basque: estetoskopio — medical instrument
  • Belarusian: стэтаско́п (stetaskóp) — medical instrument
  • Bengali: স্টেথোস্কোপ (sṭethōskōp) — medical instrument
  • Breton: selaouenner — medical instrument
  • Bulgarian: стетоско́п (stetoskóp) — medical instrument
  • Bulgarian: слуша́лка (slušálka) — medical instrument
  • Burmese: နားကြပ် (na:krap) — medical instrument
  • Catalan: estetoscopi — medical instrument
  • Chinese Cantonese: 聽診器 /听诊器 (teng1 can2 hei3) — medical instrument
  • Chinese Cantonese: 聽筒 /听筒 — medical instrument
  • Chinese: 聽診器 /听诊器 (thian-chín-khì) — medical instrument
  • Chinese: 聽筒 /听筒 (thian-tâng) — medical instrument
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聽診器 /听诊器 (tīngzhěnqì) — medical instrument
  • Czech: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Danish: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Dutch: stethoscoop — medical instrument
  • Esperanto: stetoskopo — medical instrument
  • Estonian: stetoskoop — medical instrument
  • Faroese: lurt — medical instrument
  • Finnish: stetoskooppi — medical instrument
  • French: stéthoscope — medical instrument
  • West-Frisian: stetoskoop — medical instrument
  • Galician: estetoscopio — medical instrument
  • Georgian: სტეტოსკოპი (sṭeṭosḳoṗi) — medical instrument
  • German: Stethoskop — medical instrument
  • Bavarian German: Stethoskop — medical instrument
  • Greek: στηθοσκόπιο (stithoskópio) — medical instrument
  • Gujarati: ઉરોદર્શક (urodarśak) — medical instrument
  • Gujarati: સ્ટેથોસ્કોપ (sṭethoskop) — medical instrument
  • Hebrew: סְטֶתוֹסְקוֹפּ (stetoskóp) — medical instrument
  • Hebrew: סְטָטוֹסְקוֹפּ (statoskóp) — medical instrument
  • Hebrew: מַסְכֵּת (maskét) — medical instrument
  • Hindi: स्टेथोस्कोप (sṭethoskop) — medical instrument
  • Hindi: परिश्रावक (pariśrāvak) — medical instrument
  • Hungarian: sztetoszkóp — medical instrument
  • Icelandic: hlustunarpípa — medical instrument
  • Ido: stetoskopo — medical instrument
  • Ido: auskultilo — medical instrument
  • Indonesian: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Irish: steiteascóp — medical instrument
  • Italian: stetoscopio — medical instrument
  • Japanese: 聴診器 (chōshinki) — medical instrument
  • Kannada: ಬಡಿತಕೇಳುಕ (baḍitakēḷuka) — medical instrument
  • Kannada: ಬಡಿತ ಆಲಿಸುಕ (baḍita ālisuka) — medical instrument
  • Kashubian: stetoskòp — medical instrument
  • Kazakh: стетоскоп (stetoskop) — medical instrument
  • Khmer: ស្តេតូ (steetou) — medical instrument
  • Khmer: ឧរាទស្សន៍ (ʼŏréatssân៍) — medical instrument
  • Korean: 청진기 (cheongjin'gi) — medical instrument
  • Latin: stethoscopium — medical instrument
  • Latvian: stetoskops — medical instrument
  • Lithuanian: stetoskopas — medical instrument
  • Luxembourgish: Stethoskop — medical instrument
  • Macedonian: стетоскоп (stetoskop) — medical instrument
  • Malagasy: fihainoana — medical instrument
  • Malay: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Malayalam: സ്റ്റെതസ്കോപ്പ് (sṟṟetaskōppŭ) — medical instrument
  • Manx: stetascoip — medical instrument
  • Marathi: स्टेथोस्कोप (sṭethoskop) — medical instrument
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Occitan: estetoscòpi — medical instrument
  • Persian: گوشی پزشکی (gôši-pezeški) — medical instrument
  • Persian: استِتوسکوپ — medical instrument
  • Picard: ascoutiau — medical instrument
  • Polish: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Polish: słuchawka — medical instrument
  • Portuguese: estetoscópio — medical instrument
  • Romanian: stetoscop — medical instrument
  • Russian: стетоско́п (stetoskóp) — medical instrument
  • Northern Sami: stetoskohppa — medical instrument
  • Sanskrit: स्पन्दमापिनी (spandamāpinī) — medical instrument
  • Scottish Gaelic: steatasgop — medical instrument
  • Serbo-Croatian: сте̏тоскоп — medical instrument
  • Serbo-Croatian: stȅtoskop — medical instrument
  • Sinhalese: වෙදනලාව (wedanalāwa) — medical instrument
  • Slovak: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Slovene: stetoskóp — medical instrument
  • Slovene: stetoskòp — medical instrument
  • Spanish: estetoscopio — medical instrument
  • Sundanese: stétoskop — medical instrument
  • Swedish: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Tagalog: diblinig — medical instrument
  • Tagalog: estetoskopyo — medical instrument
  • Tagalog: istetoskop — medical instrument
  • Tamil: சப்தசோதனைக்குழல் (captacōtaṉaikkuḻal) — medical instrument
  • Tamil: இதயத்துடிப்பு மானி (itayattuṭippu māṉi) — medical instrument
  • Telugu: స్టెతస్కోప్ (sṭetaskōp) — medical instrument
  • Thai: เครื่องฟังตรวจ (krêuang fang dtrùat) — medical instrument
  • Turkish: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Ukrainian: стетоско́п (stetoskóp) — medical instrument
  • Uzbek: stetoskop — medical instrument
  • Vietnamese: ống nghe — medical instrument
  • Walloon: aschoûtrece — medical instrument
  • Walloon: aschoutea (neologisms) — medical instrument
  • Waray-Waray: estetoskopyo — medical instrument
  • Welsh: stethosgop — medical instrument
  • Welsh: stethosgob — medical instrument