palpation
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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)
Types & categories
- touching hypernym
- examination hypernym
- ballottement hyponym
Related & opposite
- palpate derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | palpate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | touching |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | examination |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ballottement |