How to spell stethoscope

Stethoscope is spelled S-T-E-T-H-O-S-C-O-P-E.

hear itsteth·o·scope/'stɛθə,skoʊp/nounHidden vowels

What it means: A medical instrument for listening to internal body sounds.

In a sentence: The doctor used a stethoscope to listen to my heartbeat.

Same family: stethoscopic, stethoscopically, otoscope, microscope, endoscope. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Stethoscope” comes from Greek roots: “stēthos” meaning “chest” and “skopein” meaning “to look at or examine.” The first stethoscope, invented in 1816 by French doctor René Laennec, was actually a wooden tube that you put to your ear like a small telescope for sound.

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