PALPATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palpation mean? 

• PALPATION (noun)
  The noun PALPATION has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: PALPATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALPATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

palpation; tactual exploration

Hypernyms ("palpation" is a kind of...):

touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)

examination; scrutiny (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "palpation"):

ballottement (a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus))

Derivation:

palpate (examine (a body part) by palpation)

 Context examples 

These develop rapidly, and may be detected by palpation.

(LOU/C, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Sharp stabbing chest pain or reproduction of pain on palpation.

(Atypical Coronary Artery Disease Symptom, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Once the mass has reached the size of a small garden pea, it can be detected by palpation.

(Breast Lump, NCI Thesaurus)

A systemic evaluation of the body and its functions using visual inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation.

(Physical examination, NCI Thesaurus)

A symptom complex characterized by nervousness, chest pain, back pain, palpations, pruritus, and other usually mild symptoms occurring minutes following the initiation of dialysis with a new dialyzer.

(Dialyzer First Use Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)