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Definition of Palpations
1. palpation [n] - See also: palpation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palpations
Literary usage of Palpations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1905)
"presence of a cervical rib was only clearly mapped out after repeated »palpations.
The coexistent deformity of the spine rendered it difficult to ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"... for fine palpations. And with the monkey tribe the hand, though ready in form
for touching, is not yet free from general bondage to locomotion. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"Under the heading of touch come the personal palpations, such as patting, stroking,
or rubbing the head, chest, or abdomen. These are very ancient and ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"It strikes us that the author might have gone more largely into the subject of
external palpations and manipulations for the corrections of mal-positions, ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1890)
"Rectal palpations, when made, had always given a negative result. Further, the
examination by the sound had been made in nine cases before cystoscopic ..."
6. Females and Their Diseases: A Series of Letters to His Class by Charles Delucena Meigs (1848)
"My patient was already sufficiently agitated and nervous with all these palpations
and explorations. If I had at once communicated to her the result of my ..."
7. A Text-book of Human Physiology: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and by Austin Flint (1876)
"After tho palpations had ceased, they could be restored by removing the ligatures
and allowing the blood to circulate again in the substance of the heart. ..."
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