palpate

• “This separation can be felt as you do a partial crunch, lifting your head and shoulders while you palpate the midline of your abs.”

  The Huffington Post: Abby Sims: Preventing Pregnancy Aches and Pains

• “That Nice Dr. Pomper: Oh good, I can palpate some pee in there.”

  ain't no rest for the wicked, until we close our eyes at last

• “Trokon does not look up, so I palpate the abdomen again, stepping my fingers over the edge of the mass, a smooth and hard barrier to my probing hands.”

  Simon & Schuster: Between Expectations

• “Or more importantly, someone has a finding on their body, for example, tenderness when you palpate the abdomen ...”

  NPR: One Doctor's Mission To Revive The Humble Physical

• “If he pressed down with his fingertips he could palpate the skin, make out her organs beneath it: stomach, liver, spleen, upper intestines, lower intestines, bladder.”

  Fictionaut: Time of Death

• “Slavin just wouldn't know what to do with himself if he wasn't able to gently palpate another man's broad shoulders.”

  The Huffington Post: Reporter Dan Noyes Gets Furious At Most Annoying PR Flack Ever (VIDEO)

• “Failure to monitor his patient's post surgical temperature, failure to palpate a growing mass in his stomach, and a growing tenderness in the patients stomach suggests medical malpractice and medical negligence.”

  Was medical error to blame for Rep. Murtha's death?

• “In the late eighteenth century, physicians like the German doctor Willhelm Gottfried Ploucquet permitted themselves to palpate the bellies of pregnant women—but only those who were pregnant out of wedlock, poor and desperate, who traded such indignities for a bowl of soup or a place to stay for the night.”

  Simon & Schuster: Origins

• “He sits up and lets me listen to his heart and lungs, he lies back and lets me palpate his abdomen, he dangles his legs off the bed and lets me examine the red papules—raised patches—on his calves and the red dots on his feet.”

  Simon & Schuster: After the Diagnosis

• “Bring Arctic foxes into kitchen and palpate their bladders until they have urinated on the blueberries.”

  The Guardian: Digested read: Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine by René Redzepi

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