palpate
Example Sentences
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You want to reach out and palpate its wounds, that you might believe.
From New York Times • May 29, 2019
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
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 Jackson, Chevalier
