Significados de percuss em inglês

After effusion occurs the sound produced by percussing over the lower part of the chest is dull.

Fat raindrops percussed the top of my helmet, slowly becoming finer and more persistent as I worked on Lincoln's injuries.

I scarcely touched the abdomen, for I knew I dare not press, in percussing, enough to distinguish any sound except the tympanitic.

"Yeah, you really should have had your ass shot off," the lieutenant muttered, percussing his back.

Only twenty four hours after "the intake of food was reduced to almost nothing" the abdomen was softer and readily palpated and percussed.

"You may knock," said he, when I began to percuss his chest, "but I am --sure there's no one at home.