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Percuss

Percuss \Per*cuss"\, v. i. (Med.) To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.
--Quain.

Percuss

Percuss \Per*cuss"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Percussed; p. pr. & vb. n. Percussing.] [L. percussus, p. p. of percutere; per + quatere to shake, strike. See Quash.] To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.

Flame percussed by air giveth a noise.
--Bacon.

Wiktionary
percuss

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to. 2 (context intransitive English) To impact. 3 (context transitive chiefly medicine English) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface). 4 (context transitive chiefly medicine English) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface.

WordNet
percuss

v. strike or tap firmly; "the doctor percussed his chest and back"

Usage examples of "percuss".

How reassuring it was, after so many hands-off months of shrinking, to noodle around in bodies, palpating a belly, percussing a spleen, auscultating a heart, the sounds calling up the anatomy--that squeak a tight aortic valve, that train rumble a leaky mitral.

While Nikki held each position, Angela percussed over the lung area with a cupped hand.

The cages percussed with activity -dark, oblong blurs banded with white, scurrying from side to side: hooded rats.

Two small windows were browned by dirty shades, and Latin music — maybe the din from the unit downstairs — percussed the floor.