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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) ballottement
a medical diagnostic technique of palpating an organ or floating mass by pushing it forcefully and feeling it rebound.

Etymology: (1830–40; < F: a tossing)

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1. (noun) 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 of the uterus)

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