palpation
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Palpation
The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine…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.
» The psoas is hard to reach with palpation.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)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.
Palpation
More definitions
- 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)
Examples
1 sentencesThe psoas is hard to reach with palpation.
Translations
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in medicine:
Forms
plural: palpations| Singular | palpation |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in 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):tactual exploration
Word family
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable