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n. - Shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity.

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Usage examples (35)
  • The notation 30X means the 1: 10 dilution, followed by succussion, is repeated thirty times.
  • Homeopathy works by taking a small amount of the actual ingredient and using a process called succussion to dilute and shake (mechanically) it until what's left is a...
  • Somehow the magical process of shaking the remedy very hard between each dilution step (called "succussion") imbues it with the property of curing what it would normally...
  • In this process, liquids are diluted (with water or ethanol) and shaken by ten hard strikes against an elastic body ( "succussion"), to get the next, succeeding higher...
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