| Murphy's percussion | Examination for dullness by striking the chest wall directly with the fingertips of one hand successively, beginning with the fifth finger. Synonym: piano percussion. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Minot-Murphy diet | The use of large amounts of raw liver in the treatment of pernicious anaemia. First successes in the treatment of this disease occurred with this diet and led to development of liver extract for treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Murphy drip | Slow continuous administration of saline solution by instillation into the rectum and sigmoid colon. Synonym: Murphy drip, rectoclysis. Origin: procto-+ G. Klysis, a washing out (05 Mar 2000) |
| Murphy, John | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1857-1916. See: Murphy drip, Murphy's button, Murphy's percussion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Murphy's button | An obsolete appliance formerly used for intestinal anastomosis; it consists of two hollow cylinders, one of which is sutured into each open end of the intestine; the two are then joined and fasten automatically, maintaining the two ends of intestine in apposition by their serous surfaces; after firm union has occurred the cylinders slough away and are passed in the stools. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Murphy's sign | <clinical sign> Pain on palpation of the right subcostal area during inspiration frequently associated with acute cholecystitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auscultatory percussion | Auscultation of the chest or other part at the same time that percussion is made, to aid in hearing the sound made by percussion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bimanual percussion | Immediate percussion in which the finger of one hand taps the other hand; a form of mediate percussion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palpatory percussion | Finger percussion in which attention is focused upon the resistance and reverberation of the tissues under the finger as well as upon the sound elicited. Synonym: plessesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mediate percussion | Percussion effected by the intervention of a finger or a plessimeter between the striking finger or plessor and the part percussed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| percussion | 1. The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, especially. Such as gives a sound or report. 2. Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear. "The thunderlike percussion of thy sounds." (Shak) 3. <medicine> The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate. Center of percussion. See Center. Percussion bullet, a bullet containing a substance which is exploded by percussion; an explosive bullet. Percussion cap, a small copper cap or cup, containing fulminating powder, and used with a percussion lock to explode gunpowder. Percussion fuze. See Fuze. Percussion lock, the lock of a gun that is fired by percussion upon fulminating powder. Percussion match, a match which ignites by percussion. Percussion powder, powder so composed as to ignite by slight percussion; fulminating powder. Percussion sieve, Percussion table, a machine for sorting ores by agitation in running water. Origin: L. Percussio: cf. F. Percussion. See Percuss. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| percussion sound | Any sound elicited on percussing over one of the cavities of the body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| percussion wave | The main positive wave of an arterial pulse tracing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clavicular percussion | Percussion, usually direct, along the entire clavicle to demonstrate dullness, particularly in apical pulmonary tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| piano percussion | Examination for dullness by striking the chest wall directly with the fingertips of one hand successively, beginning with the fifth finger. Synonym: piano percussion. (05 Mar 2000) |