Definition of Palpatory

1. Adjective. Relating to or involving palpation.

Derivative terms: Palpate
Partainyms: Palpation

Definition of Palpatory

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palpatory

palpability
palpable
palpable rale
palpableness
palpably
palpal
palpate
palpated
palpates
palpating
palpation
palpations
palpatopercussion
palpator
palpators
palpatory (current term)
palpatory percussion
palpebra
palpebra III
palpebra conjunctiva
palpebra inferior
palpebra superior
palpebra tertia
palpebrae
palpebral
palpebral arteries
palpebral branches of infratrochlear nerve
palpebral conjunctiva
palpebral fissure
palpebral fissures

Literary usage of Palpatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Determination of the Minimal (Diastolic) Arterial Pressure One may use the palpatory, the oscillatory or the auscultatory method. ..."

2. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"palpatory Percussion. Some German observers use a method of percussion in which attention is fixed directly or primarily on the amount of resistance offered ..."

3. Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System: Designed to be a Practical by Robert Hall Babcock (1909)
"Robert M agii ire, of England, advocates palpatory ]>er- cussion liy tapping lightly with the soft palmar cushion of the terminal ..."

4. Physical Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest by Richard Clarke Cabot (1901)
"palpatory percussion is rather a series of short pushes against various points on the chest ... In this country palpatory percussion is but little employed. ..."

5. Text-book of gynecological diagnosis by Georg Winter, Carl Ruge (1909)
"Normal palpatory Findings. The external genitalia (vulva) consist of the labia majora and minora, the clitoris and vestibule, and are separated from the ..."

6. Blood-pressure, from the Clinical Standpoint by Francis Ashley Faught (1916)
"B. palpatory METHOD Systolic Pressure.—After the pressure in the apparatus has been raised until the pulse is no longer palpable at the ..."

7. A Manual of Physical Diagnosis by Brefney Rolph O'Reilly (1911)
"E. palpatory PERCUSSION is usually practised by percussing directly over the chest, with two or more fingers, using no pleximeter, ..."

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