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without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible" (同)bluntness
a lack of visual brightness; "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"
lack of sensibility; "there was a dullness in his heart"; "without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it."
the quality of being slow to understand (同)obtuseness
the quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"
a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility; "he fell into a deep torpor" (同)torpidity
moving slowly; "a sluggish stream" (同)sulky
a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion); corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs

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鈍さ,鈍感,不活発,退屈
不活発,無気力 / 鈍感,無感動 / 冬眠[状態]
遅い,のろい / 鈍い,活力のない

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In medicine, shifting dullness refers to a sign, elicited on physical examination, for ascites (fluid in the peritoneal cavity).^[1]

The two steps of shifting dullness. Percussion of the green section shifts from a dull note to a tympanic note after the patient changes from supine to lateral decubitus position.

To perform the test, first the midline of the abdomen is percussed eliciting a resonant note due to gas in the abdomen. If there is no area of resonance then the test cannot be performed. Percussion is then moved progressively more lateral (away from the examiner) - this is depicted as the red section in the diagram on the right - until the note becomes dull, as depicted by the green section. The examiner's index finger remains on the resonant side, and the middle finger remains on the dull side, straddling the fluid-air level. The patient is then asked to lean on their right lateral side (assuming the examiner used the traditional right sided approach). This stabilises the patient by sandwiching them between the examiner's hands and body. It is imperative that the examiner's fingers stay in the same position. After waiting sufficient time for any fluid to shift (up to 30 seconds), the dull position is then percussed. It may now be resonant. The percussion may now be performed down the anterior side until a new dullness is found. To confirm a positive result it is recommended that the now resonant area become dull again when the patient is back in the supine position.

If the borders between tympanic (resonant) and dull notes remain the same, the person probably does not have ascites, or has less than 2 litres of free fluid present.^[2] If the fluid causing the dullness was not free, then the air-fluid level would not move. Shifting dullness is usually present if the volume of ascitic fluid is greater than 1500 ml^{[citation needed]}. If low volume ascites is suspected, then an attempt to elicit the puddle sign may be performed.

References

^ Murray Longmore, Ian B. Wilinson, Edward H. Dawvidson, Alexander Foulkes and Ahmad R. Mafi Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine 8thEdition Oxford University Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-923217-8
^ Clark, ed. by Parveen Kumar, Michael (2005). Kumar and Clark clinical medicine (6th ed.). Edinburgh [etc.]: Elsevier Saunders. p. 267. ISBN 0702027642.

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