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Where would you place your stethoscope to hear the apical heartbeat?
Normally you put the stethoscope in the fifth intercostal space, in the mid clavicle line. Normally you can see the apical impulse. Some times it is shifted to wards lefts side. In thick and obese patients you locate the area, where the heart sound in most prominent in the above stated area. The interpretation of the auscultation may be difficult in such patients.
When was the loudest sound of a volcanic eruption heard and in which year?
Mount Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883 was the loudest ever heard and recorded volcanic eruption, the sound of its eruption was heard up to the northernmost tip of Japan
What appliance uses sound waves?
SONAR on submarines and shipsUltrasound medical imaging machinesSpeakersHeadphonesMicrophonesHearing aidsDoctor's stethoscope (passive)Megaphone (passive)etc.
What is receiving soundwaves?
Receiving sound waves is the process by which sound travels in form of waves and is received by our eardrums to be heard.
What is heard when something moves faster than the speed sound?
You hear a sonic boom
What causes the sounds that are normally heard when listening to the heart through a stethoscope?
The sound is caused by the closing of valves in the heart.
What causes the sounds heard through a stethoscope?
Your heart beat of course.
What produce the heart sounds heard with a stethoscope?
The valves opening and closing
Heart sounds are most easily heard by placing a stethoscope?
Apex
What does a doctor use to listen to the sound your heart makes?
A stethoscope.
How can defects can be identify?
Abnormal changes in the sound of the heart beats can be heard when a doctor listens to the heart with a stethoscope. In addition, a chest x ray, an electrocardiogram (ECG, an electrical printout of the heartbeats), and an echocardiogram
What is a sethoscope?
a stethoscope carries the sound of your heart straight to the doctor's ears
How can atrial septal defects be identified?
Abnormal changes in the sound of the heart beats can be heard when a doctor listens to the heart with a stethoscope. In addition, a chest x ray, an electrocardiogram (ECG, an electrical printout of the heartbeats), and an echocardiogram
What medical instrument begins with s?
A stethoscope where you can hear the sound of someones heart.
What is the functions of tubing in a stethoscope?
The function of the tubing in a stethoscope is to magnify the sound waves by making them narrow enough to be heard at an accurate timing through the ear canal.
What instumemt helps a doctor listen to a heart?
Stethoscope. It does so by amplifying the beat given of by the heart by the sound travelling up the rod, which does amplify the sound, weirdly.
What sound do hearts make?
Well if you had what doctors call a stethoscope, then surely you will notice that when the headphones of the stethoscope are on your ears and when the plastic disk is placed against the patients chest right toward the heart. Then you will hear the patients heart pumping like the beating drums. So there for the heart makes a low beating sound.
