percuteur
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French percuteur.
Noun
[edit]percuteur (plural percuteurs)
- A medical instrument for therapeutic or diagnostic percussion.
- 1846, The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, volume 1, page 18:
- 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 […]
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]percuteur m (plural percuteurs)
Further reading
[edit]- “percuteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.