Crossword clues for palpate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
palpate \palpate\ v. t. To examine for medical purposes by touching, as of body parts; as, the nurse palpated the patient's stomach.
Syn: feel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"examine by touch," c.1850, a back-formation from palpation, or else from Latin palpatus, past participle of palpare "to touch" (see feel (v.)). Related: Palpated; palpating.
Wiktionary
Of palp, or having palp. v
To examine, or otherwise explore, (usually an area or organ of the human body) by feeling it.
WordNet
v. examine (a body part) by palpation; "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse" [syn: feel]
Usage examples of "palpate".
Temperature normal, lungs clear, only rumenal atony and extreme tenderness as I palpated the abdomen.
The musculature was tense and boardlike and the abdominal contents were difficult to palpate because of this, but the whole area was tender to the touch.
As he reached into the flesh of her neck to palpate her carotid to be sure, that same cloying smell that could send his heart pounding came off her in waves and filled him with terror.
I could see the moist air when he exhaled, and this made me want to palpate my own stony lungs.
I began to palpate the lumbar vertebrae, feeling my way along, watching for any sign of pain.
Anatomy-and depending on what he was reading about he would use his fingers to palpate his carotid artery or his thumb to press down and follow the longest muscle in his body-the sar-torius, which ran from the outside of his hip to the inside of his knee.
She kissed him again, an emphatic unavoidable press, her hand moving across and down to palpate roughly through government-issue twill the anarchist in his pants.
Stewie engulfed the limb with his great hand and palpated it with the utmost care.
I auscultated the chest and palpated the abdomen with growing puzzlement.
Paul took hold of her buttocks and palpated them energetically, circling the firm moons of flesh as if they were dough and he was a masterchef at work.
He slammed his fist into the middle of her chest three times, then palpated over the carotid again.
This usually happened, and I palpated the snarling bundle of white hair and went over him with stethoscope and thermometer.
He suspected that the tissue mass he had palpated inside me was testicular.
When the doctor palpated and pressed his abdomen, he made a scornful grimace, as though finding all this silly and useless.
They remembered Patrick Harper, stunned cold by the fall, and they had probed and palpated and found nothing broken and so he had been put into a ward where he could snore until he recovered consciousness.