percuteur

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French percuteur.

Noun[edit]

percuteur (plural percuteurs)

  1. A medical instrument for therapeutic or diagnostic percussion.
    • 1846, The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, volume 1, page 18:
      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 []

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From percuter +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

percuteur m (plural percuteurs)

  1. firing pin

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