orthopercussion
Medicine
noun
Diagnostic percussion in which the distal phalanx of the finger used as a pleximeter is held perpendicular to the body surface, rather than flat against the body.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in The Practitioner: a monthly journal of therapeutics and public health. After German Orthoperkussion.
- Morris, William
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