Palpation vs Auscultation - What's the difference?
palpation | auscultation |
(medicine) The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.
(medicine) Diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope.
* 1973, , Death as a Fact of Life , George J. McLeod, (1973), p. 22
In medicine terms the difference between palpation and auscultation
is that palpation is the act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc while auscultation is diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope.palpation
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(wikipedia auscultation)Noun
- The movement was also responsible for the recognition of several new signs of death such as fixed, dilated pupils and auscultation of the heart.
