auscultating

Verb

auscultate (third-person singular simple present auscultates, present participle auscultating, simple past and past participle auscultated)

1. (transitive) To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
   • The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating.1969, Hortense Calisher, chapter 3, in The New Yorkers,, Boston: Little, Brown, page 123