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Percussion vs Echoscope - What's the difference?

percussion | echoscope |

As nouns the difference between percussion and echoscope

is that percussion is (countable) the collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound while echoscope is a medical instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.

percussion

English

Noun

  • (countable) the collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound
  • (countable) the sound so produced
  • (countable) the detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm
  • (medicine) the tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis
  • (music) the section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group
  • (engineering) the repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling

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    echoscope

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A medical instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.