auscultate

Etymology

Back-formation from auscultation.

verb

  1. To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
    The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating. 1969, Hortense Calisher, chapter 3, in The New Yorkers,, Boston: Little, Brown, page 123

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