(n.) The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
(n.) Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(2) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(3) The effect of manual percussion of the thorax in nine patients with stable chronic airflow obstruction and excessive tracheobronchial secretion has been studied.
(4) In seven patients with severe respiratory distress, conventional mechanical ventilation and PEEP were used initially for respiratory support, which was changed to high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV) at the same level of airway pressure and FIO2.
(5) The effect of indomethacin administration on the mortality rate of brain-injured rats was studied in four groups of animals subjected to a level of injury with a fluid-percussion apparatus predetermined to cause 50% mortality (50% lethal dose, or LD50).
(6) This study presents a new device for producing experimental, concussive head injury together with a detailed description of biomechanical features of fluid percussion brain injury in the cat.
(7) A newer technique, ausculatory percussion, has been reported as having a far higher sensitivity.
(8) Sheep fail to demonstrate changes in any of these variables after severe percussive wave brain trauma.
(9) Beneficial effects for opiate receptor antagonists have also been observed after fluid percussion head injury in cats.
(10) The chi-square results indicated that the peptostreptococcus were significantly related to apical radiolucency and B. melaninogenicus were significantly related to percussion or foul smell.
(11) These data demonstrate that fluid percussion injury in the rat reproduces many of the features of head injury observed in other models and species.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SprungDigi crew member creating percussion sounds for MusicMix.
(13) The subcutaneous thickening, the tenderness on compression and percussion of the hypothenar eminence or Raynaud's phenomenon of the last fingers should arise the suspicion of this syndrome, which will be confirmed by a positive Allen's test, Doppler examination or digitalized angiography.
(14) Bladder percussion produced contraction of the wall of the bladder and this was regularly associated with increased arterial mean and pulse pressures, a decreased heart rate and calf and hand blood flow, and venoconstriction.
(15) 10 out of 26 cases of pneumothorax could be suspected by percussion dullness.
(16) 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to determine the intracellular free Mg2+ concentration prior to and following fluid percussion induced traumatic brain injury in rats.
(17) This model employs the same fluid percussion device commonly used in in vivo brain injury studies.
(18) The fluid percussion device was attached over the right parietal cortex and a moderate (2.0 atm) intensity injury was produced.
(19) Neurological examinations revealed that she had facial diplegia, inverted V-shaped mouth, high-arched palate, talipes equinus, percussion myotonia of the tongue, generalized muscular atrophy and weakness, lordosis, areflexia, and congenital cataracta.
(20) The visco-elastic properties of a healthy tooth enabling the percussion of the Periotest tapping head to be decelerated in less than 1 ms are largely lost in periodontitis.
Tambourine
Definition:
(n.) A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) An accordionist and tambourine player, hired every year by this slowly dwindling circle of elderly friends, play as we sit at a long table under the arches of the postwar town centre.
(2) Outside Belfast city hall at lunchtime on Sunday protesters banged pots and pans, rattled tambourines and battered bongo drums in a "No Silence" protest against the violence that started over the city council's new union flag policy.
(3) Early single Manners, with its unfathomably wonderful chorus full of down-pitched tambourines, was the sort of song you sense would never go anywhere.
(4) Footage from the blocked M20 shows young families dancing to a steel drummer accompanied by a tambourine player.
(5) Fool's Gold, a larger local collective, is an overlapping mass of saxophones, guitars, bongos and tambourines.
(6) A bit of incidental tambourine behind Gary Lineker's head?
(7) Tambourines and top hats are encouraged, as is singing along; so if you only really like that one the Corrs covered you might find it a little bit much.
(8) Elsewhere in the nursery, girls (and one boy) in school blazers rattle tambourines and play hide and seek with energetic small folk, under the watchful eyes of the nursery staff.
(9) His album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan had just been released and Mr Tambourine Man provided the backdrop for myriad eye contacts, a prelude to seduction or not, as was often the case.
(10) He tells me about how brilliant Saul is in the studio; how, when they started, Saul would shout at him for being rubbish, chuck a tambourine at Lias’s head until he made better music.
(11) A steel drummer and tambourine player entertained a small crowd on the M20, while a banjo player was spotted strumming on the back of a stationary trailer.