palpate
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There was no weight, no feeling of a source or origin or cause, nothing to palpate.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019
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
If you are able to palpate some of the superficial veins on your upper limbs and try to move them, you will find that the tunica externa prevents this.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The swelling is usually sessile, but may be pedunculated; it is usually possible to palpate the edges of the gap in the bones.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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