APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Auscultation is listening to the sounds of the body during a physical examination. Auscultation is a method used to listen to the sounds of the body during a physical examination by using a stethoscope. A patient’s lungs, heart, and intestines are the most common organs heard during auscultation.

Detailed explanation-2: -This is called auscultation. Normal lung sounds occur in all parts of the chest area, including above the collarbones and at the bottom of the rib cage. Using a stethoscope, the health care provider may hear normal breathing sounds, decreased or absent breath sounds, and abnormal breath sounds.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was Hippocrates who began the concept of auscultation by applying ear to the patient’s chest to hear transmitted breath sounds and called this procedure as “immediate auscultation”.