tactual exploration

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tactual exploration - 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)

palpation

touching, touch - the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"

ballottement - a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus)

examination, scrutiny - the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)

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