单词 | succussion |
释义 | succussionn. a. The action of shaking or condition of being shaken, esp. with violence; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > shaking > violent shaking concussion1490 succussion1622 conquassationa1632 concussation1645 succussation1649 squassation1731 racking1865 juddering1924 1622 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 259 He was taken with a trembling and sudden succussion. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 180 We see whole houses shake, by reason of the jumbling and succussion of Carts and Chariots. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iii. iii. 69 Dreadful Succussions and Convulsions of the Earth. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ix. 206 Vomits..by their Succussions and Action..open the Obstructions. 1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles II. 319 The very act of riding, serves, by its fundamental succussions, to nail and fix the observations in the sensorium. 1867 C. L. Bloxam Chemistry 205 The acid boils with succussion or violent bumping. 1885 W. Roberts Urinary & Renal Dis. (ed. 4) iii. xiv. 678 Violent running, dancing, riding, or severe muscular effort or succussion of the body. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxiii. 359 This blood comes from the wall of an abscess jarred and torn by the succussion of the harassing cough. b. spec. (Medicine) An act or method of diagnosis in pneumothorax, etc. which consists in shaking the thorax to detect the presence of fluid. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [noun] > diagnosis > specific methods of diagnosis uromancy1569 uroscopy1646 waterology1654 analogism1663 succussion1747 mensuration1827 urinoscopy1836 urinalysis1867 uranalysis1889 skiagraphy1896 scatology1897 cytodiagnosis1900 cytology1902 radiodiagnosis1904 radiodiagnostics1904 urinomancy1904 iridology1916 iridiagnosis1918 iris diagnosis1921 xenodiagnosis1947 ultrasonography1960 telediagnosis1961 immunodiagnostics1970 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 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. 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 222/1 The operator stopping the succussion suddenly, and listening for the sound of fluctuation. 1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. ii. 933/2 Laennec first clearly demonstrated the conditions upon which the evidence furnished by succussion depends. 1865 Athenæum No. 1975. 307/3 The operation of succussion, as Hippocrates used to perform it, at Larissa. 1866 A. Flint Treat. 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. c. Homoeopathy. The vigorous shaking of a preparation of a drug. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > processes in pharmacy levigation1471 frixion1617 nutrition1617 extinction1646 confectioning1650 demersion1692 pill-rolling1838 succussion1848 pearl-coating1883 cryoprecipitation1955 microencapsulation1961 microencapsulating1970 1848 C. J. Hempel & J. M. Quin tr. Jahr's New Man. II. 1059 Succussion, shaking. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 646/1 The continuation of the dynamization of trituration or succussion develops a spiritual acurative agency. 1938 D. Shepherd Magic of Minimum Dose 21 This trituration or succussion is a most important part of the preparation of the drug. 1974 Homoeopathy June–July 86 This process of dilution and succussion seemed to give the remedy more energy and a greater healing effect. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1622 |
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