PERCUSS
\pəkˈʌs], \pəkˈʌs], \p_ə_k_ˈʌ_s]\
Definitions of PERCUSS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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By Oddity Software
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To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
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To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.
By Noah Webster.
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1. To tap with the finger or a hammer-like instrument (plessor) or a part of the body with a view to determine, by means of the sound elicited, the degree of density of the parts beneath. 2. To make a successior of taps on a part of the body, as a therapeutic measure.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Same etymon as the next. To strike upon with the view of appreciating the resulting sound. To practise percussion.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
