Meaning & use
fetoscope
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Meaning
nouncountablemedical
A medical instrument used to listen to the heartbeat of an unborn baby, or a thin camera tube used to look inside the womb.
Grammar: Takes an or the: a fetoscope, two fetoscopes.
Patterns
- use a fetoscope on someone
- examine something with a fetoscope
The midwife pressed a fetoscope to the mother's belly to hear the heartbeat.
Surgeons guided a fetoscope into the womb to treat the condition.
A fetoscope picks up the faint sound of the baby's heart.
Word forms
| plural | fetoscopes |
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Common combinations
- listen with a fetoscope
- The nurse listened with a fetoscope.
- insert a fetoscope
- The doctor inserted a fetoscope through a tiny cut.
- use a fetoscope
- Midwives often use a fetoscope during checks.
- a fetoscope procedure
- A fetoscope procedure may help twins.
Synonyms and how they differ
- Pinard horn
- This is an older, trumpet-shaped listening tool, not a camera.
- stethoscope
- This listens to the body in general, while a fetoscope is used on a pregnant belly.
Word family
Commonly confused: fetoscope or stethoscope?
fetoscope vs stethoscope
A stethoscope listens to a patient's heart and lungs, while a fetoscope is designed for the unborn baby.
Practice
A midwife wants to hear an unborn baby's heartbeat through the mother's abdomen. Which tool might she use?
Choose one answer.
A fetoscope listens to the baby's heartbeat. The others measure heat or magnify tiny or distant things.
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