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For centuries, doctors have used their hands as essential diagnostic tools -- exploring joints and palpating abdomens to assess a patient's health.

As he writes: “It wasn’t just people nervously palpating their glands every 10 minutes.”

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

He was gently palpating my foot to see what points made me yelp, while introducing the topic of gratitude into the conversation.

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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