palpation
IPA: pæɫpeɪʃʌn
noun
- (medicine) 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.
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Examples of "palpation" in Sentences
- The hip can be tender to palpation.
- Palpation of the posterior tibial artery pulse.
- Diagnosis is made through palpation of the knee.
- Pain is gained by history and heat by palpation.
- Palpation of these muscles will cause a painful response.
- A major diagnostic criteria for subluxation is tenderness on palpation.
- In medicine, a person's pulse is the arterial palpation of a heartbeat.