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