How To Use Palpation In A Sentence
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Stenosis in the artery causes a swishing sound, which is heard as a bruit on auscultation and also may be felt as a thrill or slight vibration in the vessel on palpation.
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The average size of tumors detected by palpation is about 45 billion cells and about an inch and a quarter in diameter; these tumors have doubled an additional eight or nine times.
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Free comminution and absolute solution of continuity were also less common than in the fractures accompanying transverse wounds; hence pain from rubbing of the fragments on inspiratory movement or palpation was more common, and crepitus, either on auscultation or palpation, was more often met with.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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The physical examination reveals the patient is in minimal distress with right lower quadrant pain and rebound tenderness and guarding on palpation.
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Incision and drainage (I & D) should be performed once the abscess is "ripe" i.e. fluctuant upon gentle palpation.
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Deep palpation of the right upper abdominal quadrant caused mild discomfort and pain.
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In palpation you can discover the size and shape of normally palpable organs, find normally impalpable organs, discover palpable masses that are not normally present, and detect the location and degree of tenderness.
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This equals a median reduction of 52 percent in the length of the spleen below the ribcage, measured by palpation, which is how spleen size is typically measured in clinical practice.
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A complete palpation of the entire chest cage, including the clavicle, ribs, and sternum.
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Systematic firm palpation of the costal margin in recommended in all patients presenting with pain in the lower chest or upper abdomen.
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Intraorally, the soft tissue overlying the area in question appeared normal and firm on palpation.
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Other symptoms include facial flushing or pallor, tenderness on palpation of the ipsilateral carotid artery, bradycardia, and abnormal feeling of scalp hairs.
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We collected female urine by bladder palpation and pooled the samples over 7-20 days per female to control for variation due to estrus.
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Coagulation was carried out with soft palpation of the probe against the bronchial wall, without pushing.
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By 90 days, the fetus drops out of range of the ultrasound and manual rectal palpation is used to monitor the foal.
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On physical examination there is general tenderness to palpation with rigidity and rebound tenderness.
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Visual inspection and palpation may detect injuries to the chest wall that may compromise ventilation.
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In addition to palpation of the thyroid gland, a thorough examination of the lymph glands in the head and neck should be performed.
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Tumors are more rigid than normal tissues, and palpation of compliant tissues to look for a rigid tissue mass has been used as a method of cancer detection for some time.
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In particular, palpation can identify tenderness over the sites of muscle attachment to bone and the bursae.
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Systematic firm palpation of the costal margin in recommended in all patients presenting with pain in the lower chest or upper abdomen.
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The physician can demonstrate how gentle palpation of the pain trigger point can reproduce the pain and its radiation over a wide area of the abdomen.
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This involves four steps: observation, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.
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One of the cardinal features of fibromyalgia is extreme pain upon palpation of at least 11 of 18 so-called tender points across the body.
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Patients with the piriformis syndrome will have pain with passive internal rotation and palpation of the sciatic notch, as well as with active external rotation.
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Because so much of diagnosis now depends on lab tests and imaging, the physical exam, including the time-honored rituals of auscultation (listening with a stethoscope) and palpation (touching parts of the body), has become less important; but skipping it short-circuits an essential part of the healing encounter, the “laying on of hands.”
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These rules call for palpation of the proximal fifth metatarsal and navicular in patients with acute ankle injuries and midfoot pain.
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In fact, in this report there's also some commentary about the role of breast palpation which is not being encouraged.
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These rules call for palpation of the proximal fifth metatarsal and navicular in patients with acute ankle injuries and midfoot pain.
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Palpation of the Achilles tendon often elicits tenderness along the tendon.
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Physical examination through percussion and palpation, however, would reveal more about the size of the liver than a flat film since the flat film only reveals one of the apecies.
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A count of 18 tender points was conducted by thumb palpation, and tenderness thresholds were assessed by dolorimetry at 9 tender sites.
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Pancreatic disease is mainly distinguishable at palpation as tenderness.
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The ads promote a quick physical exam, called palpation, in which doctors feel for unusual lumps in the thyroid, a small gland in the front of the neck.
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After further dissection, the surgeon exposes the pubic bone and identifies the ischium by palpation.
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Anorectal assessment consists of inspection, palpation and anoscopic examination.
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Systematic firm palpation of the costal margin in recommended in all patients presenting with pain in the lower chest or upper abdomen.
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The pain elicited on palpation of a tender point is localized to the area under palpation and does not elicit a jump or twitch.
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The pain is generally present without any palpation; for example, the painful abdomen associated with appendicitis.
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There was no tenderness on bony palpation over the paranasal sinuses.
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Physical examination included measurement of jugular venous pressure and palpation of the apex beat in supine and lateral position.
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Stenosis in the artery causes a swishing sound, which is heard as a bruit on auscultation and also may be felt as a thrill or slight vibration in the vessel on palpation.
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The physical examination also should include careful palpation of the lymph nodes, liver, and spleen.
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Some experts have called for ultrasonography and abdominal palpation to detect these aneurysms.
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Free comminution and absolute solution of continuity were also less common than in the fractures accompanying transverse wounds; hence pain from rubbing of the fragments on inspiratory movement or palpation was more common, and crepitus, either on auscultation or palpation, was more often met with.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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In a truly thorough palpation, you should do a digital examination in both positions.
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Palpation of the nasal structures should be done to elicit any crepitus, indentation, or irregularity of the nasal bone.
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The abdomen was soft with mild right upper quadrant tenderness on deep palpation.
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Patients with orbital floor fractures present after facial trauma with periorbital edema and ecchymosis associated with tenderness to palpation along the inferior orbital rim.
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Most exhibit little surface change and are indurated on palpation.
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Thorough clinical breast exam involves inspection and palpation of all breast tissue including lymph node basins.
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Diagnosis is usually made by eliciting pain with palpation of the tendon along the bicipital groove to its origin.
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Palpation of the head in patients with tension-type headache may reveal tenderness in the pericranial muscles and tension in the nuchal musculature or trapezius.
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Examination of the intraoral tissues includes inspection and palpation of the lips, buccal mucosa, tongue, floor of the mouth, gingiva and palate.
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Palpation of the soft tissues begins with the biceps and triceps muscles.
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Physical exam reveals scleral icterus, an enlarged liver that is firm to palpation, and occasional splenomegaly.
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Palpation of the carotids, thyroid or abdominal organs was impossible.
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Physical examination included sinus palpation and evaluation for nasal edema, erythema, or discharge.
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In examining the abdomen you must apply the usual methods of physical examination in a particular order: inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion.
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Cotton swab palpation of areas outside the vulvar vestibule result in minimal pain.
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Inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation were virtually the only tools that physicians had to diagnose every medical condition.
