TACTUAL EXPLORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tactual exploration mean? 

• TACTUAL EXPLORATION (noun)
  The noun TACTUAL EXPLORATION 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: TACTUAL EXPLORATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TACTUAL EXPLORATION (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 ("tactual exploration" 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 "tactual exploration"):

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))