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Definition of Plessor
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 Plessor
1. plexor [n -S] - See also: plexor
Medical Definition of Plessor
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 Plessor
Literary usage of Plessor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1875)
"What we tap with is called a, plessor, and may be either one or two fingers of
... In selecting a plessor and pleximeter, it is of the utmost consequence to ..."
2. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1909)
"The plessor or striker may be a small hammer, or, as is commonly the case, ...
Personally the middle finger of the right hand is the best plessor, ..."
3. A Manual of the practice of medicine by Arthur Albert Stevens (1898)
"Mediate percussion is performed by using the fingers of one hand as a plessor,
and those of the opposite hand as a plexi- meter ; or by using a piece of ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Medical Diagnosis for Students and Physicians by John Herr Musser (1913)
"If the latter, the striking finger or instrument is known as the plessor and the
... Flint's plessor. The fingers are not only more convenient than ..."
5. Physical Examination and Diagnostic Anatomy by Charles Blout Slade (1910)
"Immediate percussion is striking the surface directly with the percussing fingers
or hammer (plessor), and is, at the present day, confined to the ..."
6. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Heart and Aorta by George William Balfour (1882)
"Both pleximeter and plessor must also be as much as possible free from clang
themselves, and the former must be capable of close and accurate application to ..."
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