palpate
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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
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
It is better then to palpate for the brachial as it lies beneath the inner edge of the biceps muscle.
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
McCarthy reached across the table and palpated Schoninger’s arm.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2016
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
As he writes: “It wasn’t just people nervously palpating their glands every 10 minutes.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
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
More frequently there are rings of calcified material placed closely together or irregular beading, giving to the palpating finger the impression of feeling a string of very fine beads.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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