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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A stethoscope is a flexible tube for listening to rattles and thumps in your chest, stethos. According to the podictionary, it was invented in the days of tuberculosis as a discreet method of listening to the lungs behind an ample bosom, without directly applying the head. So the stealthoscope might have been equally apt. Below are all the instances I could find that look genuine. They were scattered amidst the word play.
Car repair forum
Can you hear the injectors clicking, you should be able to hear them clicking when someone cranks over the car. You can use a stealthoscope. Even if fuel pressure isn’t building you should still hear them click.
Fantasy writing – maybe intentional
Putting the tea cup down, he reaches into the band of his violently violet top hat and pulls out a doofalacky, those things, what are they called? Oh thats right stealthoscope, placing it in my ears quite halfway between gently and zealously.
Training log: Anatomy fact of the day!
Did you know? That if you listen closely, or through a stealthoscope, you’ll notice your heart makes two “beats” These beats are called S1, and S2.
Pet rat care
The doctor listed to his breathing with a stealthoscope and that’s all she did. She said he had a respitory infection.
Nurse forum
with breath sound for many of my patient when i have them breath i hear nothing but i know their breath sounds are there. i have my stealthoscope press hard and i still get this problem
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Last edited by David Bird (2010-01-15 18:50:22)
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A great find—I like the idea of sneaking up on the heart. And it sounds like it should be the name for a proprietary film process used primarily in cheesy 1960s spy movies.
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Yes, this one works very well. The notion of taking a measurement in a stealthy, noninvasive manner is clear.
For a while I was asking myself whether someone who did not know the word “stethoscope” might know the word “stealthy,” but I decided that—within the hierarchy of learning—it was probably the normal sequence.
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