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BALLOTTEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ballottement" is a kind of...):
palpation; tactual exploration (a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional))
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