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Palpation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    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) wordnet

Etymology

From palpate + -ion.

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