Auscultation vs Osculation - What's the difference?
auscultation | osculation |
(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 action of kissing
A kiss
A close contact
(mathematics) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent
Determining whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.
As nouns the difference between auscultation and osculation
is that auscultation is diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope while osculation is the action of kissing.auscultation
English
(wikipedia auscultation)Noun
- The movement was also responsible for the recognition of several new signs of death such as fixed, dilated pupils and auscultation of the heart.