percuss
Example Sentences
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Hipcamp’s communications manager, sitting beside me, took a sip of her wine and percussed enthusiastically.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019
Only twenty four hours after "the intake of food was reduced to almost nothing" the abdomen was softer and readily palpated and percussed.
From Appendicitis by Tilden, John Henry
When a cask or other structure containing air is tapped upon, or percussed, a hollow sound is given forth.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
Acute endocardial inflammation may be distinguished from pleuritis by the absence of any friction murmur, absence of pain when the chest wall is percussed, and the absence of effusion in the cavity of the chest.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
The foot is then examined—pared, percussed, pinched, and in other ways manipulated—but nothing further is forthcoming.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
