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  1. Instrument used to ascertain the condition of
  2. the heart and lungs by listening to their
  3. action. It consists of two earpieces
  4. connected by flexible tubes to a small plate
  5. that is placed against the body. It was
  6. invented in 1819 in France by Rene Theophile
  7. Hyacinthe Laennec.
  8.