auscultation
/ˌɔːskəlˈteɪʃən/noun
auscultation is a noun meaning “Diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-S-C-U-L-T-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of auscultation is auscultations.
What does auscultation mean?
noun
- 1
Diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce auscultation?
- UK /ˌɔːskəlˈteɪʃən/
- UK /ˌɔskəlˈteɪʃən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-auscultation.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of auscultation
- auscultations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is auscultation?
Auscultation appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Auscultation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense diagnosis by stethoscope or similar auditory device:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | auscultation |
| German | Abhören, Abhorchen, Auskultation |
| Portuguese | auscultação |
| Spanish | auscultación |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does auscultation come from?
From Latin auscultātio (“act of listening”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).