(n.) The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(2) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(3) Patients were grouped as +RSC if they developed a sustained spontaneous palpable pulse or blood pressure and as -RSC if they did not develop a pulse or blood pressure.
(4) The lesion presented as a discrete, palpable mass that led to orchiectomy.
(5) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
(6) A palpable, purpuric, nonpruritic eruption occurred in a 64-year-old man nine days after he received intravenous streptokinase therapy, which was successful in treating acute myocardial infarction.
(7) Abdominal pain was the most common presenting symptom and a pelvic mass was palpable in all patients.
(8) The tumor was palpable on physical examination, but not apparent on plain radiographs.
(9) Dietary quercetin inhibited both the incidence and the number of palpable rat mammary tumors; rats fed on 2% quercetin had 25% less incidence of mammary cancer, while the average number of mammary tumors per rat was reduced by 39% at 20 wk post-DMBA administration compared to animals on a control diet.
(10) For some patients with T3 or V+ tumors and palpably normal retroperitoneal nodes, an extended nodal dissection may resect microscopically involved nodes and result in an improved survival rate.
(11) Histologically confirmed results were obtained from 496 palpable findings.
(12) A nodal mass may be palpable and computed tomography (CT) is frequently requested in order to differentiate recurrent tumour from the longer term effects of surgery and radiotherapy.
(13) When palpable tumors developed in all animals, therapy was initiated.
(14) After complete, high quality x-ray mammography, a palpable mass or nonpalpable mammographic abnormality may remain indeterminate in etiology, and ultrasound may be useful as an adjunctive diagnostic modality.
(15) Activity of the cytosol enzyme esterifying cholesterol at pH 6.5 was also enhanced during the active growth of Zajdela hepatoma and during the period of chemical carcinogenesis characterized by the appearance of first palpable subcutaneous tumors.
(16) But what was, perhaps, even more fun than a win in the offing was that the desperation of opponents of same-sex marriage leading up to today’s argument in Obergefell v Hodges was palpable.
(17) The hybrid with the strongest NK effect (ACBF1) was the least resistant to YAC growth (27% palpable tumors), and the hybrid with the weakest NK effect (ALF1) was the most resistant to YAC growth (7.2% palpable tumors).
(18) The two patients were women, one a 45-year-old who consulted for pain, epigastric discomfort and melenas, and the other a 76-year-old who consulted for paraneoplastic syndrome and a palpable mass in the right lower quadrant.
(19) A review of the literature has shown that this is the largest such tumor so far described, and the first time a mass was palpable on abdominal examination.
(20) Caring for persons with AIDS calls upon a range of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual interventions that, in the absence of a cure, can make a palpable difference for patients.
Palpation
Definition:
(n.) Act of touching or feeling.
(n.) Examination of a patient by touch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(2) on, whereas palpation is only possible upward of 15 mm.
(3) The Canadian Home Fitness Test is a self-administered procedure in which the participant steps at an age- and sex-specific rhythm controlled by recorded music, then palpates the pulse immediately following activity.
(4) Palpation and puncture are used for diagnosis of some tumors.
(5) A through pancreatic mobilization and palpation was performed during operation.
(6) These results are superior even to those of surgeons with 30 years of experience specializing in the breast (86.9%, 85.3%, and 85.8%), especially when tumors cannot be palpated.
(7) It is of mechanical or mixed type, accompanied by local, pseudo-inflammatory signs being either apparent or discrete, very elective and very sharp pain upon palpation of a very limited area of a condyle or a tibial plate, with hyperfixation located through scintigraphy with technetium 99m polyphosphates, and regressing either spontaneously, or more quickly under treatment, of which thyrocalcitone is the essential part, without undergoing a phase of intense loco-regional demineralization.
(8) Both sonography and palpation failed to identify their presence in 4 tests.
(9) The data obtained by intraatrial palpation were compared with the data obtained by TEE.
(10) An intra-abdominal abscess was diagnosed in a 7-year-old mare by palpation per rectum and from abnormal clinicopathologic findings.
(11) Preoperatively, blood chemistry studies were done in addition to palpation of the abdomen.
(12) Peritoneography was performed in 122 patients clinically suspected of hernia without definite palpation findings.
(13) Treatment consisted of cholecystectomy also in the four patients in whom no stones could be palpated in the gallbladder.
(14) However its depth and tense, cystic feeling on palpation, were considered somewhat unusual.
(15) TAU approach showed a significant inferiority (p less than 0.02) and TVU a significant superiority (p less than 0.08) in comparison to palpation.
(16) A 65-year-old woman experienced transient paralysis of the left arm immediately after palpation of the right carotid artery; at surgery, a friable, atherosclerotic plaque was removed from the bifurcation of the artery.
(17) Four (40%) demonstrated an objective response to treatment: Three patients had a decrease in tumor mass on computed tomography (CT) scan, and one patient had a reduction in liver size as measured by palpation.
(18) The ultrasonic diagnosis as a method of recognising postoperative subprosthetical breast pathological changes (respectively of simulated tumor recidivs and implanted breast prosthesis) located near the thorax and therefore difficult to detect by external palpation and mammography examination have been described in a follow-up study, and further possibilities of application suggested.
(19) The effect of anti-parkinson drugs on reserpine-induced rigidity was examined using a technique which measured rigidity by hind limb palpation.
(20) Standardized headache history; plain film and dynamic spinal X rays; motion palpation; and pressure algometry.