palpation

From palpate +‎ -ion.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

palpation (countable and uncountable, plural palpations)

1. (medicine) The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.

• “palpation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “palpation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “palpation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from Latin palpātiōnem, or from palper +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /pal.pa.sjɔ̃/

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palpation f (plural palpations)

1. palpation

• “palpation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.