HyperDic: ballottement

English > 1 sense of the word ballottement:
NOUNactballottementa 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 / wall / wall of the uterus)
English > ballottement: 1 sense > noun 1, act
MeaningA 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 / wall / wall of the uterus).
Broaderpalpation, tactual explorationA 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)

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