Medicine gently tap (a part of the body) with a finger or an instrument as part of a diagnosis
【医】 叩诊
the bladder was percussed.
对膀胱进行了叩诊。
词源
"mid 16th cent. (in the general sense ‘give a blow to’): from Latin percuss- ‘struck forcibly', from the verb percutere, from per- ‘through' + quatere ‘to shake, strike’."