palpate

He gave anatomy lessons by asking jurors to palpate their own necks, and showed an artist’s rendering of how three officers, including Mr. Chauvin, had been positioned on Mr. Floyd.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021

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

Sounding the esophagus with bougies to determine the level of the obstruction, or to palpate the nature of the foreign body, is unnecessary and dangerous.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

“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

I have palpated cancer, seen the havoc it wreaks under a microscope, and auscultated the damage it inflicts on the body’s organs.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015

“When asked why she knew it, she said that she felt as if there were a lump there. I do not quite know what she means by this, unless she actually palpated this area.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

A video features a couple of Kardashian-Jenners palpating a wall illuminated by blinking neon tube lights.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

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

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2020

She extended her arms and laid my son on the exam table, gently palpating his abdomen.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2017

A sensation simulating crepitus may be felt on palpating a part into which blood has been extravasated, or which is the seat of subcutaneous emphysema.

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