palpate

Verb
  1. Examine (a body part) by palpation (synset 201212916)
    "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse"
    referred to in: medicine, practice of medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
    is a type of: touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with
    same as: feel
    verb group: feel - grope or feel in search of something

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