What is "palpated"

Usage examples of "palpated".

I auscultated the chest and palpated the abdomen with growing puzzlement.

Temperature normal, lungs clear, only rumenal atony and extreme tenderness as I palpated the abdomen.

Stewie engulfed the limb with his great hand and palpated it with the utmost care.

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.

He walked over to the stern, raised himself on his toes and palpated the thick metal.