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palpation|pælˈpeɪʃən|
[ad. L. palpātion-em stroking, flattering, flattery, n. of action of palpāre to palp; cf. F. palpation (15th c. in Godef.).]
Touching, feeling by touch, handling; gentle handling; spec. medical examination by feeling.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 19/2 Forthly by palpacion of his very body. 1640Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. v. ii. 226 When a man essayes all kind of Experiments without sequence or method that is a meere palpation [L. palpatio]. 1656Blount Glossogr., Palpation, flattery, cogging, fair speaking, soothing. 1688[see palmation 1]. 1853Dunglison Med. Lex., Palpation, the sense of touch. It is also used for the mode of exploring disease by feeling..the diseased organ. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. xxii. 320 A hairy thing lay by his side, which..he examined by palpation, and found to be a dog.
attrib.1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 898 The presence of emphysema tends to mask the percussion and palpation signs very considerably. |