stethoscope
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How to pronounce stethoscope in British English:
英 [ˈsteθəskəʊp]
How to pronounce stethoscope in American English:
美 [ˈsteθəskoʊp]
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- Noun:
- a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body
单词词源
- stethoscope (n.)
- instrument for examining the chest, 1820, from French stéthoscope, coined 1819 by its inventor, French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781-1826) from comb. form of Greek stethos "chest, breast" + -scope. Greek stethos is perhaps related to sternon (see sternum); it meant "front of the chest," and was only rarely used of a woman's breasts, but in Modern Greek it became the preferred polite term. Related: Stethoscopic; stethoscopy.
双语例句
- 1. If not for the stethoscope around her neck , I 'd have taken her for a poetess .
- 2. " The idea 's ridiculous ! A barrister without his wig would be like a doctor without a stethoscope , " he wrote in a newspaper article when the changes were first proposed .
- 3. When that cold stethoscope hits the skin and the blood pressure cuff starts tightening around the bicep people may get a little anxious .