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percuteur

percuteur noun: a medical instrument for therapeutic or diagnostic percussion.

Noun

percuteur (plural percuteurs)

  1. A medical instrument for therapeutic or diagnostic percussion.
    • To return to my narrative: furnished with a percuteur, I had not long to wait for an opportunity of employing it. In February, 1834, a man of the name of Doyle was admitted into the hospital with symptoms of calculus […]1846, The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, volume 1, page 18

Forms of percuteur

pluralpercuteurs

Origin of percuteur

Borrowed from French percuteur.

Questions about percuteur

What does percuteur mean?
Percuteur means a medical instrument for therapeutic or diagnostic percussion.
What part of speech is percuteur?
Percuteur is a noun.
What is the plural of percuteur?
The plural of percuteur is percuteurs.

Words near percuteur in the dictionary

  1. percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
  2. percutaneously
  3. percute
  4. percuted
  5. percutes
  6. percuteur
  7. percuteurs
  8. percutient
  9. percutients
  10. percuting
  11. percy

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