Terms vs Percuss - What's the difference?
terms | percuss |
To strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to.
To impact.
(transitive, chiefly, medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface).
(transitive, chiefly, medicine) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface.
As a noun terms
is .As a verb percuss is
to strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to.percuss
English
Verb
(es)- Solid bodies, if they be very softly percussed , give no sound.
- Falling on the roof of the caravan, the hailstones percussed noisily.
- The doctor percussed his chest to determine whether he had pneumonia.
- Percussing a patient's spleen is best done while he is on his back.
