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succussion|səˈkʌʃən|
[ad. L. succussio, -ōnem, n. of action f. succuss-, succutĕre to succuss. So F.]
a. The action of shaking or condition of being shaken, esp. with violence; an instance of this.
1622Wotton Lett. (1907) II. 259 He was taken with a trembling and sudden succussion. 1660Stanley Hist. Philos. xiii. iv. ii. (1687) 880/1 We see whole Houses shake, by reason of the jumbling, and succussion of Carts and Chariots. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iii. iii. 69 Dreadful Succussions and Convulsions of the Earth. 1733Cheyne Engl. Malady ii. ix. §2 (1734) 206 Vomits..by their Succussions and Action..open the Obstructions. 1824McCulloch Highlands Scot. II. 319 The very act of riding, serves, by its fundamental succussions, to nail and fix the observations in the sensorium. 1867Bloxam Chem. 205 The acid boils with succussion or violent bumping. 1885W. Roberts Urin. & Renal Dis. iii. xiv. (ed. 4) 678 Violent running, dancing, riding, or severe muscular effort or succussion of the body. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxiii. 359 This blood comes from the wall of an abscess jarred and torn by the succussion of the harassing cough.
b. spec. (Med.) An act or method of diagnosis in pneumothorax, etc. which consists in shaking the thorax to detect the presence of fluid.
1747Gentl. Mag. XVII. 77/2 If the infirm cannot stir out of their bed or chair,..they may make a succussion by heaving up and letting down their shoulders. 1833Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 222/1 The operator stopping the succussion suddenly, and listening for the sound of fluctuation. 1858Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. ii. 933/2 Laennec first clearly demonstrated the conditions upon which the evidence furnished by succussion depends. 1865Athenæum No. 1975. 307/3 The operation of succussion, as Hippocrates used to perform it, at Larissa. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. 148 Succussion in most cases develops a splashing sound frequently having the same kind of musical intonation as the respiration, voice, and tinkling sounds.
attrib.1883F. T. Roberts Th. & Pract. Med. (ed. 5) 358 Succussion-signs... The signs produced by shaking a patient are:—1. A splashing-sensation felt by the hand. 2. A splashing-sound. 1886Fagge Princ. Med. I. 940 Another sign of pneumothorax..is that which is termed ‘succussion-splash’. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 661 This succussion sound..is specially interesting as having been observed by Hippocrates.
c. Homœopathy. The vigorous shaking of a preparation of a drug.
1848Hempel & Quin tr. Jahr's New Manual II. 1059 Succussion, shaking. 1910Encycl. Brit. XIII. 646/1 The continuation of the dynamization of trituration or succussion develops a spiritual acurative agency. 1938D. Shepherd Magic of Minimum Dose 21 This trituration or succussion is a most important part of the preparation of the drug. 1974Homoeopathy June/July 86 This process of dilution and succussion seemed to give the remedy more energy and a greater healing effect. |