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Definition of Percuss
1. Verb. Strike or tap firmly. "The doctor percussed his chest and back"
Definition of Percuss
1. v. t. To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
2. v. i. To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.
Definition of Percuss
1. Verb. (transitive) To strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To impact. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive chiefly medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface). ¹
4. Verb. (transitive chiefly medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Percuss
1. to strike with force [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Medical Definition of Percuss
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Percuss
Literary usage of Percuss
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Cure for Consumption by Its Own Virus by James Compton Burnett (1900)
"lives 150 miles away from London, I have never been able to see her to percuss
and auscultate with the view of ascertaining the physical state of her ..."
2. The Detroit Medical Journal edited by Leartus Connor, John Jolliffe Mulheron (1877)
"It is necessary to percuss forcibly and to use a pleximeter and hammer instead
of the fingers only. The two sides must of course be ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1894)
"percuss his stomach, this gives clear, as distinct from muffled, resonance. ...
percuss the right front, and observe the normal muffled quality of the ..."
4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"If you percuss at right angles to the chest wall in the axilla you ... If you
percuss in an anteroposterior direction you percuss out the left border of ..."
5. Lectures on the English Language by George Perkins Marsh (1887)
"... Gul Mm us percuss it Pet rum, Gulielmus Pel rum percuss it, Pet rum percuss
it Gulielmus, Petrum Gulielmus percuss it, percuss it Gulielmus Petrum, ..."
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