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At each setting, the practitioner would percuss the reagent's abdomen to determine the areas of dullness.
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Each of us would percuss a classmate's chest, or listen to his heart with a stethoscope.
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Palpate the chest for subcutaneous emphysema and crepitus, and percuss for dullness, an indication of consolidations or effusions.
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Some find it easier to percuss the dullness due to the heart in this way than by mediate percussion.
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The moving elements consisted of two approximately 2-cm-diameter spheres that percuss the skin with low amplitude and high frequency.
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During the examination, failure to palpate a liver edge or percuss a normal liver span could indicate massive hepatocyte loss and reduced liver volume.
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With the patient supine you percuss along a transverse line from the umbilicus into the flank to establish the level of dullness that signifies the lower extent of bowel.
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Castell's method involves first placing the patient in the supine position. With the patient in full inspiration and then full expiration, percuss the area of the lowest intercostal space (eighth or ninth) in the left anterior axillary line. If the note changes from resonant on full expiration to dull on full inspiration, the sign is regarded as positive. The resonant note heard upon full expiration is likely to be due to the air-filled stomach or splenic flexure of the colon.
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Physical examination began to take precedence, although internal examinations were impossible. Although the aforementioned lesions were common in most corpses, Corvisart and his contemporaries shifted medicine towards the clinical and physical ways that disease affects the body and away from the patient narrative. This change also represented a segue from therapeutic medicine to diagnostic medicine, which banked on the premise that a cure would always be present for whatever diagnosis was available. As one of his publications, Corvisart's translation of Leopold Auenbrugger's Inventum novum in 1808 further expanded the field of auscultation through providing a text for physicians to learn how to percuss patients' chests for diagnostic purposes.
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Ebers Papyrus from the National Library of Medicine The Ebers Papyrus is an Egyptian medical text and is the oldest known record of the human body, dating back to 3000 BC. The Ebers Papyrus describes the body by physical examination and what can be felt. Clinical investigations such as the Pulse, percussion of the body, the recognition of diseased or disordered states. “If thou examinst a swelling of the covering of his belly’s horns above his pudenda (sex organs) then thou shalt place thy finger on it and examine his belly and knock on the fingers (percuss) if thou examinst his that has come out and has arisen by his cough. Then thou shalt say concerning it: it is a swelling of the covering of his belly. It is a disease which I will treat”.
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