Meanings
nounpercuteur (plural percuteurs)
plural percuteurs
- A medical instrument for therapeutic or diagnostic percussion.
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 […]
1846, The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, volume 1, page 18
Origin
- Frenchpercuteur
- Englishpercuteur
Borrowed from French percuteur.
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percuteur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/percuteur
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“percuteur.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/percuteur. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “percuteur,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/percuteur.
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