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Definition of Percussor
1. Noun. (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes.
Generic synonyms: Hammer
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Derivative terms: Percuss
Definition of Percussor
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Percussor
1. A small hammer, usually with soft rubber head, used to tap the part directly, or with a plessimeter, in percussion of the chest or other part. Synonym: percussor, plexor. Origin: G. Plesso, to strike (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percussor
Literary usage of Percussor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine (1843)
"... The percussor is attached to one end of a lever handle, which is fixed on ...
and consequently the height to which the percussor can be raised at the ..."
2. A Manual of auscultation and percussion: Embracing the Physical Diagnosis of by Austin Flint, James Cornelius Wilson (1890)
"Percussion with the fingers or vvith a percussor and pleximeter—The normal
vesicular resonance on ... The instruments are a pleximeter and a percussor. ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1842)
"After the stone is in the grasp of the percussor, the bed also serves to fix the
instrument firmly, and thus prevent the shock of the blows from the hammer ..."
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