SUCCUSSION
\səkˈʌʃən], \səkˈʌʃən], \s_ə_k_ˈʌ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of SUCCUSSION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.
By Oddity Software
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A diagnostic procedure which consists in shaking the body so as to elicit a splashing sound in a cavity containing both gas and fluid.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The act of shaking; a shake; an ague; a shaking of the nervous parts by powerful stimulants; diagnosis of the thorax by a slight shake.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A mode of ascertaining the existence of a fluid in the thorax, (fluctuation by succussion,) by giving the body one or more slight shakes.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
