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Palpation vs Touching - What's the difference?

palpation | touching |

As nouns the difference between palpation and touching

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 touching is the act by which something is touched.

As a verb touching is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective touching is

provoking sadness and pity.

palpation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Related terms

    * palp * palpability * palpable * palpate * palpiform * palpitate * palpitation

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    touching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Provoking sadness and pity.
    • a touching story

    Synonyms

    * emotional, moving, sad

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is touched.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
    • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings , and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

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