percuteur
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French percuteur.
Noun
editpercuteur (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
editEtymology
editPronunciation
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Noun
editpercuteur m (plural percuteurs)
Further reading
edit- “percuteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.