(n.) An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate auscultation), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(2) Indirect blood pressure measurement techniques included automated oscillometry, manual auscultation, visual onset of oscillation (flicker) and return-to-flow methods.
(3) Rapid heart beat was found accidentally by auscultation.
(4) In contrast to other methods (ECG, inspection, auscultation, blood gas analysis), it immediately detects an impending lack of oxygen, whatever its cause.
(5) Although the continuous murmur is an unusual sign in patients with pulmonary embolism, its auscultation is often quite distinctive, and its appearance may lead to more definitive diagnostic studies when the presentation or associated clinical findings are nonspecific.
(6) An apparently primitive cervical bruit corresponded to a lesion of the carotid bifurcation in 61% of the cases (positive predictive value) whereas a normal bifurcation was detected in 70% of the cases in which the cervical bruit was considered as secondary (negative predictive value); the diagnostic accuracy of the "critical auscultation" has a value therefore of 63%, with a sensitivity of 84% and a specificity of 40%.
(7) In 43% of the patients with pulmonary tuberculosis no abnormal signs were registered by auscultation.
(8) A technique of thoracotomy via the triangle of auscultation is described.
(9) Echocardiography supports the diagnosis of MVP made by auscultation in over 90% of individuals, with excellent reproducibility.
(10) Cases of neonatal seizures and persistent abnormal neurological signs followed by survival were twice as frequent in the intermittent auscultation group, and this differential effect was related to duration of labor.
(11) Air entry by auscultation improved subjectively in 59% of patients.
(12) Testing consisted of spirometry, lung auscultation, and measurement of vital signs.
(13) Two of the four seronegative children developed a mild illness characterized by rhinorrhea and wheezing on auscultation; none had fever.
(14) During exercise, mean arterial pressure (MAP, brachial auscultation) was significantly lower (P less than 0.03) and heart rate significantly higher (P less than 0.02) during the prazosin trials; plasma catecholamine concentrations were unaffected.
(15) Diagnosis is made by following the classical physical diagnostic procedures of inspection, palpation, and auscultation.
(16) The ability of the auscultated acceleration test to predict nonstress test results after selected variables were controlled for was as follows: sensitivity, 75%; specificity, 97.6%; false-positive results, 14.3%; and false-negative results, 4.7%.
(17) As regards auscultation, a plea is made for differentiation between obstructed and non-obstructed consolidation of lobes, a point recognized by some clinicians, but not enunciated with clarity by teachers.
(18) The forceps delivery rate was 8.2% in the electronic fetal heart monitoring group compared with 6.3% in the intermittent auscultation group, and this excess was explained by more instrumental deliveries prompted by fetal heart rate abnormalities.
(19) Intraobserver and interobserver agreement in classifying all specific TMJ sounds at palpation and auscultation was acceptable to moderate (kappa value = 0.49 to 0.74).
(20) Twenty-seven of these 30 joints were treated with the appliance until the joints were silent to auscultation.
Auscultatory
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to auscultation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Respiratory alteration in the intensity of heart sounds is one of the commonest auscultatory pitfalls.
(2) Based on initial auscultatory findings, patients were divided into: (1) single or multiple apical systolic clicks with no murmur (n = 99); (2) single or multiple apical systolic clicks and a late systolic murmur (n = 129); and (3) single or multiple apical clicks and an apical pansystolic murmur or murmur beginning in the first half of systole (n = 63).
(3) For patient management, use of an auscultatory classification may be preferable to the technically generated term "mitral valve prolapse."
(4) Levels of blood pressure measured by the conventional auscultatory method were compared with those measured by the Dinamap Monitor (Dinamap Monitor 1846 SX, Critikon Inc, Tampa, Fla), an oscillometric device.
(5) The significant decrease of the respiratory rate and of the resistance of the respiratory system as well as the significant increase of the volume of the breath inspiration unambiguously prove, beside the influence on the subjective health and on the auscultatory findings, a bronchial-enlarging effect of halothane.
(6) We describe 4 patients with the interesting auscultatory finding of intermittent mitral regurgitation.
(7) Though the specific billowing mitral leaflet syndrome almost certainly accounts for some of these auscultatory findings, a significant proportion may have early rheumatic heart disease.
(8) In clinical evaluation of a new type of automatic sphygmomanometer, a strict comparability of results with the standard indirect auscultatory method is required.
(9) Shunt thrombosis was assumed when the flow in the shunt discontinued under visual and auscultatory control.
(10) This may be a reflection of fundamental differences between auscultatory and oscillometric measurements.
(11) The findings of this study suggest that published normative levels of auscultatory blood pressure may be inappropriate as a standard when blood pressure measurement is obtained by the Dinamap Monitor.
(12) Because auscultatory findings may vary greatly among patients with suspected mitral valve prolapse, careful examination is essential to avoid diagnostic misinterpretation.
(13) Aortic stenosis was diagnosed on the basis of cardiac catheterization data in four patients, operative findings in two and auscultatory findings in three.
(14) Isolated non-ejection systolic click(s) was the major cardiac auscultatory finding (61.7%), while 60% showed pansystolic prolapse on echocardiography.
(15) For half a century the systolic click and late systolic murmur lay dormant as innocent auscultatory curiosities.
(16) It can play an extremely important role in certain clinical circumstances, even before blood culture results are available or hemodynamic or auscultatory abnormalities appear.
(17) The following parameters were considered: presence of an auscultatory systolic ejection click (SEC); evidence of a bicuspid aortic valve (BAV); aortic valve stenosis (AVS); aortic valve eccentricity index (AVEI); left ventricle wall hypertrophy (LVWH).
(18) Phonocardiographic and physical examinations were carried out on these patients to determine the typical auscultatory pattern of this prosthesis.
(19) These ambulatory blood pressure recorders measure blood pressure by either auscultatory or oscillometric methodology.
(20) A prominent feature in the clinical picture was a discrepancy between auscultatory findings and the pronounced changes in the chest X-ray.