percuss

percuss

percuss (third-person singular simple present percusses, present participle percussing, simple past and past participle percussed)

1. (transitive) To strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to.

   Solid bodies, if they be very softly percussed, give no sound.

2. (intransitive) To impact.

   Falling on the roof of the caravan, the hailstones percussed noisily.

3. (transitive, chiefly medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface).

   The doctor percussed his chest to determine whether he had pneumonia.

4. (transitive, chiefly medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface.

   Percussing a patients spleen is best done while he is on his back.

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To impact.

(transitive, chiefly medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface.

(transitive, chiefly medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface).

(transitive) To strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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