🧪 Shaking to mix 🩺 Shaking for diagnosis

succussion

9.9

Shaking a person to check for liquid in the chest

noun
/səˈkʌʃən/

Specialized

: sacudida

The doctor performed succussion to check for fluid in the patient's chest.

Examples

Medical textbooks describe succussion as a technique for detecting abnormal fluid accumulation.
During the examination, succussion revealed evidence of a pleural effusion.
The doctor performed a succussion to check for fluid in the lungs.
After the succussion, the patient felt more comfortable.
During the examination, succussion revealed evidence of a pleural effusion.
The doctor performed succussion to check for fluid in the patient's chest.
Medical textbooks describe succussion as a technique for detecting abnormal fluid accumulation.

Antonyms

stabilization

28 3.9

Making something steady so it is less likely to change

How Strongly

succussion

Specialized

9.9

agitation

1 4.8

tap

66 1.0

Surface Forms

succussion singular

succussions plural

Morphology

succussion = succuss (opaque) = succuss + ion

Formed from the rare verb 'succuss' + the noun-forming suffix '-ion'; the base verb is uncommon and the medicalized sense is specialized, so learners are unlikely to infer the meaning.

Etymology

Succussion comes from the Latin succutere, which means 'to shake', and it is the same root as concussion, a violent shake to the head. So in medicine a succussion is a careful shaking or movement used to see if fluid moves in a body cavity, helping doctors find things like fluid in the chest.