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Definition of Palpates
1. palpate [v] - See also: palpate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palpates
Literary usage of Palpates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1917)
"... the unaffected side while at the same time the surgeon makes pressure under
the rib border with one hand and with the other he palpates the abdomen. ..."
2. Diseases of infants and children by Henry Dwight Chapin, Godfrey Roger Pisek (1915)
"Beginning at the head, the right hand palpates the right side of the body and
the left band simultaneously palpates the left side. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"One palpates with both hands, one on each side of the umbilicus and about ...
One palpates with the fingers of the right hand, along a line drawn from the ..."
4. The Clinical Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1916)
"One palpates, first, the abdomen as a whole, and, afterwards, methodically
investigates the several regions, comparing, especially, symmetrical regions of ..."
5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"The breast having been covered for twenty-four hours with antiseptic solutions
and his hands being thoroughly aseptic, he carefully palpates the pectoral ..."
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