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PALPATORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does palpatory mean?
• PALPATORY (adjective)
The adjective PALPATORY has 1 sense:
1. relating to or involving palpation
Familiarity information: PALPATORY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or involving palpation
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
palpation (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))
Derivation:
palpate (examine (a body part) by palpation)
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