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).

synonym: tactual exploration.

Roget 379: touch; tact, taction^†, tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation^†; manipulation; massage.    [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus^†.    ... show more

Dutch: het betasten, palpatie
Polish: palpacja