Definition of Percuss

1. Verb. Strike or tap firmly. "The doctor percussed his chest and back"

Generic synonyms: Tap, Tip
Derivative terms: Percussion, Percussive, Percussor

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

1. To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Percuss

percolation theory
percolations
percolative
percolatively
percolator
percolators
percolin
percolins
percomorph oil
percomorphi
percontation
percontative
percontatorial
percurrent
percursory
percuss (current term)
percussed
percusses
percussing
percussion
percussion cap
percussion section
percussion sound
percussion wave
percussionist
percussionists
percussions
percussive
percussive instrument

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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