What's the difference between palpation and palpiform?

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.

Palpiform


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the form of a palpus.

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