What does succussation mean?
Succussation means (obsolete) Violent shaking or jolting..
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/sʌkəˈseɪʃən/ · noun
(obsolete) Violent shaking or jolting..
in order, by a more frequent and a more convulsive elevation and depression of the diaphragm, and the succussations of the intercostal and abdominal muscles in laughter, to drive the gall and other bitter juices from the gall bladder
They rode, but authors having not / Determin'd whether pace or trot, / That is to say, whether tollutation, / As they do term't, or succussation […]
lifting one foot before, and the cross foot behind, which is succussation or trotting
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Succussation means (obsolete) Violent shaking or jolting..
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in order, by a more frequent and a more convulsive elevation and depression of the diaphragm, and the succussations of the intercostal and abdominal muscles in laughter, to drive the gall and other bitter juices from the gall bladder
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