Much depends on the sensitiveness of the fingers of him who palpates, and much upon the relation of the palpated artery to the surrounding, chiefly underlying, structures.
The radial artery was palpated to determine the presence of sclerosis.
A week later the wound track could be palpated as an evident hard continuous cord.
No exit wound discovered, and no track could be palpated between the two openings, which were both circular and depressed.
Malignant compressions are characterized by their hardness when palpated with the tube.
Practice on the rubber tube trains the eye to recognize objects and to gauge distance; it develops the tactile sense so that a knowledge of the character of the object grasped or the nature of the tissues palpated may be acquired.
Only twenty four hours after "the intake of food was reduced to almost nothing" the abdomen was softer and readily palpated and percussed.
Red streaks appear along the lines of the superficial lymph vessels, and the deep lymphatics may sometimes bepalpated as firm, tender cords.
If the induration is well marked, the chancre can be palpated through the prepuce, and is tender on pressure.
The loose fragment can bepalpated on rectal examination.
The empty glenoid may sometimes be palpated from the axilla.
The displaced bones may be palpated through the skin, or by vaginal or rectal examination.
The displaced fragment can sometimes be palpated and made to move when the muscles attached to it are relaxed.
The limb is held flexed and pronated, and the facility with which the bony points can be palpated renders the diagnosis easy.
The forearm is lengthened, the elbow slightly flexed, the posterior aspect of the joint flattened, and the condyles, in their abnormal relationship, can be palpatedfrom behind.
Seven or eight rings of the trachea lie above the level of the sternum, but they cannot be palpated individually.
The end of the diaphysis may be palpated through the skin in front.
Forward dislocation is the most common; the end of the clavicle lies on the front of the sternum, somewhat below the level of the sterno-clavicular joint, and its articular surface can be distinctly palpated (Fig.
Except in thin subjects, the constituent elements of the hip-joint cannot be palpated through the skin.
The sternal fragment almost invariably overrides the acromial, and can usually be palpated through the skin; on measurement, the clavicle is found to be shortened.
The rear part of the body was palpated to detect undigested material in the gut, and if any was present, an attempt was made to squeeze out the fecal material, using only light pressure, with care not to injure the racer.
In females the ventral surface was palpated at the rear end of the body to detect the genital bursa or vagina, which in sexually mature individuals has a much thickened wall, and can be felt as a distinct lump.
The stomach was palpatedfor recently ingested food items, and any detected were forced up into the gullet to be identified, then were squeezed back into the stomach.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palpated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
