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• n  (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes

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• Misdiagnosed Man Struggling to Breathe Gets Lungs 'Washed'
  Robert Epperson had a lung lavage. He was fitted with a chest percussor, a vest that shook his chest, while doctors intubated him, allowing one lung to breathe for two, and literally washed the other lung with a saline solution, cleaning out the excess surfactant from his air spaces. Then they switched lungs and washed the second one, all in the same procedure.        
  Jan. 16, 2014 - ABC News
• Virginia Man Struggling to Breathe Gets Lungs 'Washed'
  Robert Epperson had a lung lavage. He was fitted with a chest percussor, a vest that shook his chest, while doctors intubated him, allowing one lung to breathe for two, and literally washed the other lung with a saline solution, cleaning out the excess surfactant from his air spaces. Then they switched lungs and washed the second one, all in the same procedure.        
  Jan. 16, 2014 - ABC News