Definition of Percusses

1. Verb. (third-person singular of percuss) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Percusses

1. percuss [v] - See also: percuss

Lexicographical Neighbors of Percusses

percolative
percolatively
percolator
percolators
percolin
percolins
percomorph oil
percomorphi
percontation
percontative
percontatorial
percurrent
percursory
percuss
percussed
percusses
percussing
percussion
percussion cap
percussion section
percussion sound
percussion wave
percussionist
percussionists
percussions
percussive
percussive instrument
percussive maintenance
percussively

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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