Percussion and auscultation refer to tapping and listening as strategies for physical assessment. A health care provider can use these techniques to examine the chest and abdomen, most typically.
Auscultation
The prefix of auscultation is "auscult-". The suffix of auscultation is "-ation".
In the word auscultation, there is a minor accent on the first syllable (aus) and a major accent on the third syllable (ta).
This is called auscultation, and is used most often to listen for heart and lung sounds. You can also ausculate the abdomen to listen for stomach and bowel sounds.
"Pulmonary auscultation" is a fancy way of saying "listening to the lungs with a stethoscope."
Auscultation is one way to determine a patients health.
Henry Marshall Hughes has written: 'A clinical introduction to the practice of auscultation, and other modes of physical diagnosis' -- subject(s): Auscultation, Percussion, Chest, Diseases 'A clinical introduction to the practice of auscultation' -- subject(s): Auscultation
Cardiac auscultation is the medical term meaning listening to the heart.
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The appropriate steps to take when examining a patient are inspection, auscultation, palpation and percussion.
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