(medicine) The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.

plural of palpation

Relating to palpation

To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.

Of palp, or having palp.

simple past tense and past participle of palpate

present participle of palpate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of palpate

One who palpates. / A device for palpating. / (zoology, dated) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

plural of palpator