probings

Those wounded, but not mortally—how nobly they bore the necessary probings and needed amputations!

The probings, therefore, in what was assumed to be the track of the ball, only increased the unfavorable symptoms.

I would have gone through the surgeon's probings without a groan if she might have re-bandaged the arm afterwards.

The lad's careless good-humoured laugh under Ancrum's probings was evidence enough of how the land lay.

Soundings and surface probings have been taken at frequent intervals over the entire route.