palpate

IPA: pˈæɫpʌt

To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.

Examples of "palpate" in Sentences

That Nice Dr. Pomper: Oh good, I can palpate some pee in there.
Or more importantly, someone has a finding on their body, for example, tenderness when you palpate the abdomen ...
Slavin just wouldn't know what to do with himself if he wasn't able to gently palpate another man's broad shoulders.
This separation can be felt as you do a partial crunch, lifting your head and shoulders while you palpate the midline of your abs.
Trokon does not look up, so I palpate the abdomen again, stepping my fingers over the edge of the mass, a smooth and hard barrier to my probing hands.
If he pressed down with his fingertips he could palpate the skin, make out her organs beneath it: stomach, liver, spleen, upper intestines, lower intestines, bladder.
Failure to monitor his patient's post surgical temperature, failure to palpate a growing mass in his stomach, and a growing tenderness in the patients stomach suggests medical malpractice and medical negligence.
In the late eighteenth century, physicians like the German doctor Willhelm Gottfried Ploucquet permitted themselves to palpate the bellies of pregnant women—but only those who were pregnant out of wedlock, poor and desperate, who traded such indignities for a bowl of soup or a place to stay for the night.