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Q.What are the uses of stethescope?
Puducherry TnboardTamil Nadu HSC (DGE) Board 2018Subjective· 3mImportance★★★★★
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →A stethoscope is used to listen to internal body sounds — heart, lungs, intestines and foetal heart — and to measure blood pressure.
A stethoscope is a medical instrument that amplifies and transmits internal body sounds to the examiner's ears. It has a chest-piece (with a diaphragm and bell) placed on the patient's body, connected by tubes to two ear-pieces. Listening to body sounds in this way is called auscultation.
Uses of the stethoscope:
- To listen to heart sounds — the normal 'lubb-dubb' beats and any abnormal sounds such as murmurs, which help diagnose heart valve and rhythm problems.
- To listen to respiratory (lung) sounds — breath sounds and abnormal sounds (wheeze, crackles) that indicate lung diseases like asthma, bronchitis or pneumonia.
- To listen to bowel/intestinal sounds, assessing digestive-tract activity. …
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