PALPATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palpate mean? 

• PALPATE (verb)
  The verb PALPATE has 1 sense:

1. examine (a body part) by palpation

  Familiarity information: PALPATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALPATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they palpate    ... he / she / it palpates   
Past simple: palpated   
Past participle: palpated   
-ing form: palpating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Examine (a body part) by palpation

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

feel; palpate

Context example:

The runner felt her pulse

Hypernyms (to "palpate" is one way to...):

touch (make physical contact with, come in contact with)

Verb group:

feel (grope or feel in search of something)

Domain category:

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)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

palpation (a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional))

palpatory (relating to or involving palpation)