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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese: Book summary] Reference

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 skin, the pulmonic sound will answer clearly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

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 bluesmen and rained down upon him the redemptive fires of slide and the snapping percuss of bass strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry, Giselle and Joyce] Reference

I have other fish to fry, other drums to percuss, other plantar warts to palpate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Campus] Reference

Ask the patient to take a deep  breath and percuss this area again  Dullness in this area is a sign of splenic enlargement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The moment I heard her harp begin to percuss in "Bridges and Balloons", my ear instinctively cocked, sensing something unlike anything I'd ever heard before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crossed Pond] Reference

The white ovals show you where to percuss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference