palpate
1[pal-peyt]
verb (used with object), pal·pat·ed, pal·pat·ing.
to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
RELATED WORDS
taste, feeling, contact, communication, impression, atmosphere, mood, touch, aura, sense, ambience, quality, lick, tap, feel, scratch, collision, stroke, caress, embrace
Origin of palpate
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Historical Examples of palpation
If a dilated stomach contains considerable fluid and the abdominal walls are yielding, fluctuation may be perceived by palpation.
There is pain in raising the heel from the ground, and creaking can be felt on palpation.
Manual of SurgeryAlexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
Palpation of the sinus with the finger or aspiration with a hollow needle is sometimes advised as an aid to diagnosis.
At first elastic and resilient, it slowly decreased in volume with the assumption of a soft doughy character on palpation.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900George Henry Makins
But usually when a tumor is present it is readily mapped out by palpation.
palpate
1verb
Word Origin for palpate
C19: from Latin palpāre to stroke
palpate
2adjective
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palpate
[păl′pāt′]
v.
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