Auscultate vs Palpate - What's the difference?
auscultate | palpate |
To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
To examine, or otherwise explore, (usually an area or organ of the human body) by feeling it.
Of palp, or having palp.
As verbs the difference between auscultate and palpate
is that auscultate is to practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation while palpate is to examine, or otherwise explore, (usually an area or organ of the human body) by feeling it.As an adjective palpate is
of palp, or having palp.auscultate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en-verb)References
* ----palpate
English
Verb
(palpat)- I palpated his expired heart.