palpation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English palpate

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ion

English palpation

From palpate + -ion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

palpation (countable and uncountable, plural palpations)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• faradopalpation
• palpational
• repalpation
• self-palpation

Related terms

• palp
• palpability
• palpable
• palpate
• palpiform
• palpitate
• palpitation

Translations

in medicine

Bulgarian: опипване n (opipvane), палпитация f (palpitacija) Chinese: Mandarin: 触診 (zh) (chùzhěn) Dutch: palpatie (nl) Finnish: palpaatio German: Palpation (de) f Greek: ψηλάφιση (el) f (psiláfisi), ψαύση (el) f (psáfsi) Indonesian: palpasi (nl) Romanian: palpare (ro) f, palpație (ro) f (rare)

Further reading

• “palpation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “palpation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “palpation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palpātiōnem, or from palper +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.pa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

palpation f (plural palpations)

1. palpation

Further reading

• “palpation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012