palpation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun 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)

From palpate + -ion.

A 5 cm. diameter area of purplish red discoloration and increased firmness to palpation is situated in the apical portion of the right upper lobe. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
Obviously mammal in weight of bosom you remark that she has in front well to the fore two protuberances of very respectable dimensions, inclined to fall in the noonday soupplate, while on her rere lower down are two additional protuberances, suggestive of potent rectum and tumescent for palpation, which leave nothing to be desired save compactness. — Ulysses, James Joyce

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