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Percuss [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To strike. [Little used.]

Percuss [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.

Percuss [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.

Percussed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Percuss

Percussing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Percuss

Percussion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of striking one body against another, with some violence; as the vibrations excited in the air by percussion

2. The impression one body makes on another by falling on it or striking it.

3. The impression or effect of sound on the ear.

Percussion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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

3. 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.

Percussive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.