Noah Webster
Auscultation
AUSCULTA'TION, noun [Latin from antiq. ause, Gr. the ear, and cultus, from colo, to use or exercise.]
1. The act of listening, or hearkening to.
2. In medicine, a method of distinguishing diseases, particularly in the thorax, by observing the sounds in the part, generally by means of a tube applied to the surface.