Succussion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of shaking violently, especially as a method of diagnosis to detect the presence of fluid and air in a body cavity.
  • n. The condition of being shaken violently.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of succussing or shaking; a shake.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of shaking.
  • n. A shaking; a violent shock.
  • n. A method in physical diagnosis which consists in grasping the thorax between both hands and shaking it quickly to elicit sounds, and thus to detect the presence of liquid, etc., in the pleural sacs.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    auscultation   
    Cross Reference
    succussion sound   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shake   
     
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