Palpation

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  • n. The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Act of touching or feeling.
  • n. Examination of a patient by touch.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of touching; feeling by the sense of touch.
  • n. Specifically, in medicine, manual examination, or a method of exploring various organs by feeling them with the hand or hands.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    examination    touch    touching    scrutiny   
    Cross Reference
    palpation-corpuscles   
    Hyponym
    ballottement   
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