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A doctor's word. To palpate a part of the body is to check it with the hands — usually the fingers — by pressing and feeling, not by looking. A doctor may palpate your belly to see if something is swollen, palpate a lump to feel if it is soft or hard, or palpate a pulse. It is a careful, trained kind of touching, done on purpose to learn something. You almost never hear ordinary people say it about ordinary life; it belongs in clinics, textbooks, and medical notes. Though actually, the idea itself is simple: the hands can find things the eyes cannot.
觸診
組成Does not split in English. Borrowed from Latin palpātus, the form of palpō meaning “touch softly.”
同家族的字
- palpablesame Latin root: something you can feel, or that feels almost close enough to touch
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
palpateverb/ˈpælpeɪt/
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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.
- David reached inside with his fingers and palpated a logic board.
palpateadj/ˈpælpeɪt/
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Of palp, or having palp.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。