palpation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]palpation (countable and uncountable, plural palpations)
- (medicine) The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]in medicine
Further reading
[edit]- “palpation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “palpation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “palpation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin palpātiōnem, or from palper + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]palpation f (plural palpations)
Further reading
[edit]- “palpation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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