Repercussion

1. n. In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
2. n. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.
3. n. Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
4. n. The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.