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the act of playing drums; "he practiced his drumming several hours every day"

tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes

the act of playing drums; "he practiced his drumming several hours every day"

tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes

The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.

Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.

The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate.

The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.

Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.

The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate.

Act of striking a part with short, sharp blows as an aid in diagnosing the condition beneath the sound obtained.

Violent collision, or meeting; shock produced by the violent meeting of bodies; impression of sound on the ear.

Tapping the body with the hands to learn condition of part investigated.

The striking of one body against another: collision, or the shock produced by it: impression of sound on the ear: (med.) the tapping upon the body to find the condition of an internal organ by the sounds.

Act or effect of striking; stroke; shock.

Sudden collision, or the shock or vibration produced by it.

When immediate or direct percussion is made on the chest or abdomen, the more or less perfect resonance is an index of the state of the contained organs; and the physician is thus aided in his diagnosis. For this purpose the chest may be struck with the fingers, gathered into a bundle, and their tips placed upon a level. It is better, however, to employ mediate percussion, which consists in interposing, between the point of the fingers and the chest, the finger of the other hand, or a Pleximeter, and striking this instead of the naked chest.

The act of striking a part as an aid in diagnosis.

A method of physical examination by tapping on the surface overlying a part or organ in order to ascertain its condition by the sounds elicited.

A therapeutic measure consisting of repeated tapping of a part.

n. [Latin] Act of striking one body against another; forcible collision, especially such as gives a sound or report;—hence, the effect of violent collision; vibratory shock;—act of determining the condition of an internal organ by the sound given when the external surface is gently knocked upon. Percussion cap, a small copper cap containing fulminating powder, and used in a percussion-lock to explode gunpowder. Percussion-lack, a lock of a gun in which gunpowder is exploded by fire obtained from the percussion of fulminating powder.