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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, rubber-headed hammer used in medical examination or diagnosis primarily for percussion of nerves to elicit reflexes.
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- noun medicine A
tool used byphysician to hit thebody andtest for certainreflexes .
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