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PALPATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they palpate ... he / she / it palpates
Past simple: palpated
Past participle: palpated
-ing form: palpating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Examine (a body part) by palpation
Example:
The runner felt her pulse
Synonyms:
feel; palpate
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "palpate" is one way to...):
touch (make physical contact with, come in contact with)
Verb group:
feel (grope or feel in search of something)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
palpation (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))
palpatory (relating to or involving palpation)
