What's the difference between palpate and palpitation?

Palpate


Definition:

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.

Palpitation


Definition:

  • (n.) A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
  • (2) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
  • (3) In 61 patients altogether subjective side-effects could be recorded, such as vertigo (5%), palpitations (2.8%), fatigue (2%), insomina (1.9%), nausea (1.7%) and vomiting (0.8%).
  • (4) Since she was 25-year-old, she had had insomnia which accompanied by choked feelings, palpitations, clumsiness of hands and anxiety.
  • (5) The role of 24 hour Holter monitoring in the screening of patients complaining of palpitations is reviewed.
  • (6) A 46-year-old woman occasionally experienced palpitation of short duration and chest oppression since 1977.
  • (7) At the initial evaluation, exercise limitation was rare in group I; whereas, most of the patients in group II presented symptoms such as palpitation, chest pain or exertional dyspnea.
  • (8) Case 1: This 21-year-old man experienced palpitation accompanied by syncope.
  • (9) If the anemia is severe, palpitations, otic pulsations, and cardiac decompensation are common.
  • (10) There was no correlation between the two types of mitral valve prolapse and the body mass index, the fractional shortening of the left ventricle and symptoms (dyspnea, palpitations, precordial pain, dizziness).
  • (11) All the groups showed significant pre- to post-treatment reductions in sweating, palpitations, restlessness, dry mouth, muscular tension, nausea, loss of appetite and upset stomach and the extent of these reductions were not different for the different treatments.
  • (12) This report describes a 37-year-old woman with a 5-year history of paroxysmal attacks of hypertension, headache, and palpitation.
  • (13) Symptoms of congestive heart failure, fatigue and palpitation were common.
  • (14) Endoscopic examination of a 35-year-old patient complaining of tarry stool, palpitation and lumbago led to a diagnosis of gastric cancer of Borrmann type 4.
  • (15) He has now told the Daily Telegraph: “I was not unwell – I have not had heart palpitations - but I was getting increasingly terrible pain in my shoulder, my back and so I was suffering from neuralgic pain.
  • (16) Patients with MVP syndrome present with a symptom complex which results from various forms of neuroendocrine or autonomic dysfunction; the most common symptoms include chest pain, palpitations, cardiac arrhythmias, orthostatic phenomena, syncope, presyncope, fatigue, exercise intolerance, dyspnea and neuropsychiatric symptoms (Table 1).
  • (17) She was readmitted because of dizziness and palpitation in April, 1989.
  • (18) His condition was often accompanied by ectopic junctional tachycardia with isorhythmic AV dissociation, which made him complain of palpitation by elevating right intra-atrial pressure.
  • (19) Of 18 children, only six had any symptoms, consisting of chest discomfort, palpitation, or convulsion.
  • (20) Transesophageal atrial pacing was used to evaluate the cause of palpitations in 28 patients ages 3 to 18 years (mean 11).

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