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発音

• enPR: pălʹpāt, IPA: /ˈpælpeɪt/

動詞

palpate (third-person singular simple present palpates, present participle palpating, simple past and past participle palpated)

1. To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.

   I palpated his expired heart.

   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:

     David reached inside with his fingers and palpated a logic board.

同意語

• touch

派生語

形容詞

palpate (not comparable)

1. Of palp, or having palp.

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Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “palpate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “palpate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.