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Definition of Palpation
1. 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).
Generic synonyms: Touch, Touching, Examination, Scrutiny
Specialized synonyms: Ballottement
Derivative terms: Palpate
Definition of Palpation
1. n. Act of touching or feeling.
Definition of Palpation
1. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Palpation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Palpation
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Palpation
Literary usage of Palpation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"NOTHING systematic has, to the writer's knowledge, as yet been published regarding
diagnostic palpation of the vermiform appendix. ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"External Examination of the Head, and Measurements of the Head and Body (a)
Inspection and palpation On inspection and palpation of the skull, ..."
3. A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver by Friedrich Theodor Frerichs, Charles Murchison (1879)
"In practising palpation, everything must be avoided which can induce tension of
the abdominal muscles, and thus interfere with the free penetration of the ..."
4. Diseases of the stomach: Textbook for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1906)
"palpation. palpation is one of the best and most important methods of examination.
... palpation is first practised with the tips of the fingers without ..."
5. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"I. palpation. The most important points to be determined by palpation—that is,
... Other less important data furnished by palpation will be mentioned later. ..."
6. The Diagnostics of internal medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1906)
"METHODS AND RESULTS OF GENERAL ABDOMINAL palpation AND PERCUSSION Technic of
Abdominal palpation.—The abdomen being exposed as for inspection, the warm hand ..."
7. Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine; a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1900)
"palpation. We judge by the application of the hand of the size, position, ...
In order to use palpation with most effect, the abdominal muscles must be ..."
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