| 单词 | palpate |
| 释义 | palpate (once / 912 pages) v To palpate is to examine with the hands, by pressing. Your doctor might palpate your abdomen if you have a pain in your stomach. You're most likely to come across the verb palpate in a doctor's office or another medical context. A veterinarian will palpate a limping dog to feel for broken bones or tight muscles, and it's common for a doctor to palpate the glands in your neck during a routine exam. The Latin root word is palpatus, which means "to touch." WORD FAMILYpalpate: palpable, palpated, palpates, palpating, palpation, palpatory+/impalpability: impalpabilities/impalpable: impalpability, impalpably/palpability: palpabilities/palpable: impalpable, palpability, palpablest, palpably USAGE EXAMPLES“Do you golf?” the doctor asked last week while palpating my tender right arm. Washington Post(Jun 19, 2016) One day, he stays in to enjoy the latest bestseller, Jane Webb’s “The Mummy”; on another, a phrenologist reads Pückler’s character by palpating his skull. Washington Post(May 04, 2016) I suggest examining their patients: listening to hearts and lungs, palpating abdomens, assessing extremities, pulses. Washington Post(Feb 12, 2016) v examine (a body part) by palpation The nurse palpated the patient's stomach Syn|Hyper feel feel grope or feel in search of something touch make physical contact with, come in contact with |
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