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ballottement

NOUN
  1. 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)

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  • The differential diagnosis is with a non displaced fracture of the ankle: edema, pain over the external lateral ligament, and look for ballottement of the ankle bone. Chapter 8
  • Cephalic ballottement was obtained in the large tumor. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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