Usage examples (7)

• He teaches him how to read the signs from the human body, to use his hands to percuss, and to use his mind to listen.
• When we raise the arms from the side and percuss the thorax between the folds of the axillae, where the serratus magnus muscle alone intervenes between the ribs and the...
• He moved onto more recent acts, slim-hipped and breastless women with curly brown hair and hyper-aggressive technique, women who were better axe-men than he, who shouted like...
• I have other fish to fry, other drums to percuss, other plantar warts to palpate.