a. [f. L. auscultāt- (see AUSCULT) + -ORY.] Of or pertaining to listening, or to the medical practice of auscultation.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 240. Engage nature in her passive auscultatory faculties.
1833. J. Forbes, Cycl. Pract. Med., I. 235. The auscultatory diagnostics of cardiac diseases.
