MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY

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: -The 5 points of auscultation of the heart include the aortic, pulmonic, tricuspid, and mitral valve as well as an area called Erb’s point, where S2 is best heard.

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”.