orthopercussion
American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary:
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or·tho·per·cus·sion
(ôr'thō-pər-kŭsh'ən)
n.
n.
Very light percussion of the chest, used to determine the size of the heart.
Saunders Veterinary Dictionary:
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orthopercussion
Percussion with the distal phalanx of the finger held perpendicularly to the body wall.
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