From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpalpatepal‧pate /pælˈpeɪt $ ˈpælpeɪt/ verb [transitive] medical MHto touch part of someone’s body in order to examine it→ See Verb table
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palpate• The increasing reliance on imaging suggests that the technique of palpating a pyloric tumour is a declining art.• Another 7% had a mass palpated before imaging, giving a total of 87% of cases that were diagnosed clinically.• The art of palpating for a pyloric mass should be taught by experienced senior staff to junior staff and students.• A large abdominal faecal mass was palpated in 42% of patients, indicating a severe form of constipation.• A further clinical examination is time consuming since it entails preparing another feed and watching or palpating the abdomen throughout a feed.• They palpated the lumps, the pea-shaped thing and the horse-shoe-shaped thing.• Not so the beetle grubs, even after I squeeze them, palpate them, and breathe on them.Origin palpate (1400-1500) Latin past participle of palpare; → PALPABLE 