dictionary help| repercussion | medical dictionary |
1. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound. "Ever echoing back in endless repercussion." (Hare)
2. Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
3. <medicine> The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
4. <obstetrics> In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
Origin: L. Repercussio: cf. F. Repercussion.
(01 Mar 1998)
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