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PALPATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional)
Synonyms:
palpation; tactual exploration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("palpation" is a kind of...):
touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)
examination; scrutiny (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "palpation"):
ballottement (a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus))
Derivation:
palpate (examine (a body part) by palpation)
