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Palpation   Listen
noun
Palpation  n.  
1.
Act of touching or feeling.
2.
(Med.) Examination of a patient by touch.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Palpation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sensation (1) Touch % 379. [Sensation of pressure] Touch. — N. touch; tact, taction[obs3], tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation[obs3]; manipulation; massage. [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus[obs3]. V. touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... readings cannot be made, or are very unsatisfactory, and it becomes necessary to use the palpation method in taking the systolic pressure. In instances in which the auscultatory method is unsatisfactory, the artery below the bend of the elbow at which the reading is generally taken may be misplaced, or there ...
— DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D.


Words linked to "Palpation" :   examination, scrutiny, ballottement, touching


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