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Definition of Percusses
1. percuss [v] - See also: percuss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percusses
Literary usage of Percusses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"By means of a small hammer moved by clockwork or electricity, he percusses over
the painful nerve in order to induce in it vibrations of a different rhythm ..."
2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1899)
"As one percusses ... liver by noting the line where flatness and great resistance
change to dulness and less resistance, as one percusses from below upward. ..."
3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1905)
"... percusses at the other end, one will be able, when his hearing has been trained,
to distinguish those differences in sound which indicate a fracture. ..."
4. Diseases of the Stomach, Intestines, and Pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"He percusses over the patient's stomach, preferably with the organ empty and the
patient in the erect position. He then administers a glass of water (8 ..."
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