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What is the difference between auscultation and bruit?

auscultation | bruit |

In context|medicine|lang=en terms the difference between auscultation and bruit

is that auscultation is (medicine) diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope while bruit is (medicine) an abnormal sound heard on auscultation (french pronunciation).

As nouns the difference between auscultation and bruit

is that auscultation is (medicine) diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope while bruit is (archaic) rumour, talk, hearsay.

As a verb bruit is

(us|archaic british) to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.

auscultation

English

(wikipedia auscultation)

Noun

  • (medicine) Diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope.
  • * 1973, , Death as a Fact of Life , George J. McLeod, (1973), p. 22
    • The movement was also responsible for the recognition of several new signs of death such as fixed, dilated pupils and auscultation of the heart.

    Related terms

    * auscultate * auscult

    See also

    * ("auscultation" on Wikipedia)

    bruit

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (label) Rumour, talk, hearsay.
  • * 1590 , (William Shakespeare), , Act IV, Scene 7
    • Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand: / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
  • * 1607 , (William Shakespeare),
    • But yet I love my country, and am not / One that rejoices in the common wreck, / As common bruit doth put it.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1
    • , passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].}}
  • (label) An abnormal sound heard on auscultation. (French pronunciation)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US, archaic British) to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.
  • * 1590 , Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the new found land of Virginia ,
    • There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.
  • * William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,
    • And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
    Re-speaking earthly thunder.
  • * 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld ,
    • Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him.
  • * {{quote-web, date=2010-08-04
    • , year= , first= , last= , author=Darren Murph , authorlink= , title=China's maglev trains to hit 1,000km/h in three years , site=Engadget citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-03-18 , passage= … it's bruited that the tunnel would cost "10 to 20 million yuan … }} ----