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Touch: wood, iron, glass, steel, sometimes thrumming softly, sometimes percussing like a tight drum.

P waves percuss the rock like a drumstick, traveling quickly through incompressible material.

The doctor knelt at the bedside to perform the time-honored tradition of percussing the heart.

I percussed the abdomen and found an enormously enlarged and indurated spleen, reaching beyond the navel and pushing up the thoracic viscera.

This in my hands has been of great assistance in percussing the limits of the heart dullness.