Definitions for palpation

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. palpation, tactual exploration(noun)

    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)

Wiktionary

  1. palpation(Noun)

    The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patientu2019s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.

  2. Origin: From palpate + -tion

Webster Dictionary

  1. Palpation(noun)

    act of touching or feeling

  2. Palpation(noun)

    examination of a patient by touch

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Palpation

    Application of fingers with light pressure to the surface of the body to determine consistence of parts beneath in physical diagnosis; includes palpation for determining the outlines of organs.


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