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n. Medicine A palpatory technique for detecting or examining a floating object in the body, as:

n. The use of a finger to push sharply against the uterus and detect the presence or position of a fetus by its return impact.

n. Palpation of the abdominal wall while a kidney is being pushed sharply from the backside, used as a test for determining the presence of a floating kidney.

n. A method of diagnosing pregnancy, in which the uterus is pushed with a finger to feel whether a foetus moves away and returns again.

n. An increased amount of fluid in the suprapatellar pouch of the knee.

n. In obstetrics, a method of testing pregnancy.

n. It consists of palpation, to determine the presence of a movable body in the abdomen, such as a child in the womb, a floating kidney, etc., by a sudden tap with the finger from below; this forces the body upward, and it can be felt again as it settles down upon the tip of the finger. Also called repercussion.

n. 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)

"The differential diagnosis is with a non displaced fracture of the ankle: edema, pain over the external lateral ligament, and look for ballottement of the ankle bone."

palpation    tactual exploration