palpate

Clayton: Yes, you palpate, exactly, you get a heart rate, you listen to the heart, you listen for the gut sounds depending on what species you’re working with.

From Slate ● May 31, 2017

On race day, track veterinarians palpate every horse with their hands, watch them jog in search of abnormalities in gait and determine their fitness to race.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2016

She wants them to have “haptic responsiveness,” so that the surgeon operating the robot can feel in her own hands the bounce or flab of an internal muscle, or palpate a liver from long distance.

From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016

By following along the clavicle, you can palpate out to the bony tip of the shoulder, and from there, you can move back across your posterior shoulder to follow the ridge of the scapula.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

After careful inspection has given all the data which it is possible to obtain, one next lays the palm of the hand over the heart and attempts to palpate the apex beat.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield

“Monster” turns out to be but one of several words the author carefully palpates, finding it “male, testicular, old world. It’s a hairy word, and has teeth.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

He prods and palpates patients head to toe, searching for tiny tears where muscles attach to bone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Much depends on the sensitiveness of the fingers of him who palpates, and much upon the relation of the palpated artery to the surrounding, chiefly underlying, structures.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield

She palpated the lymph nodes under his neck and arms, down his torso, and checked his scars for healing, while the three of us waited for the scan images to appear on her computer.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021

They aggressively palpated my uterus—which involves getting hold of it and squeezing it, basically.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2020

They probed and palpated 130 local people, measured height and weight, and came home with a lot of blood.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2018

First, the muscles are inspected and palpated for signs of structural irregularities.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

I’ve been ridiculed by classmates, guinea-pigged by doctors, palpated by specialists, and researched by the March of Dimes.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

For centuries, doctors have used their hands as essential diagnostic tools -- exploring joints and palpating abdomens to assess a patient's health.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

But hadn’t a snoozing Archie been on our couch plenty of times before, a stress-relieving lump of warm fur, perfect for mindless palpating?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2021

Didn't I just touch my face at the supermarket after palpating the avocados?

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2020

I sat through several recordings of people palpating packets of noodles, pretzels, popcorn.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2013

The head is flexed towards the affected side, and there is pain on movement and on palpating the swelling.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles