Are you going to steth me?

"steth" is not a term they teach in medical schools. Has any one posed the question to their health care provider and gotten a smile back?

That's a really interesting question! I think the truth that words such as "to steth" (or be stethed), "stething" and " "stethee" are a product of our own activities on forums such as this. Certainly I can remember back in the days of the old "Stethplay" (there's another one!) group seeing these words for the first time and wondering how they seem to have developed as our own kind of shorthand.

Then again, I love the sound and feel of words like "stethoscope" and "auscultation" far too much to use short versions if I can help it!