percuss
Example Sentences
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Touch: wood, iron, glass, steel, sometimes thrumming softly, sometimes percussing like a tight drum.
From Seattle Times
P waves percuss the rock like a drumstick, traveling quickly through incompressible material.
From Science Magazine
The doctor knelt at the bedside to perform the time-honored tradition of percussing the heart.
From New York Times
I percussed the abdomen and found an enormously enlarged and indurated spleen, reaching beyond the navel and pushing up the thoracic viscera.
From Project Gutenberg
This in my hands has been of great assistance in percussing the limits of the heart dullness.
From Project Gutenberg
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