| Meaning | Examine (a body part) by palpation. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach" | |
| Synonym | feel | |
| Category | medicine, practice of medicine | The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries |
| Broader | touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with |
| Similar to | feel | grope or feel in search of something |
| Spanish | palpar, sentir | |
| Catalan | palpar | |
| Adjectives | palpatory | relating to or involving palpation |
| Nouns | palpation | 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) |
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