| NOUN | act | tactual exploration, 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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| Meaning | 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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| Synonym | palpation | |
| Narrower | ballottement | A 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) |
| Broader | examination, scrutiny | The act of examining something closely (as for mistakes / mistakes) |
| touch, touching | The act of putting two things together with no space between them | |
| Spanish | palpación | |
| Catalan | palpació | |
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