When Simi begins to palpate Mary's joints, she finds her stride, spilling out technical terms as she goes: symmetrical deformity; ulnar deviation at the MCP joint; rheumatoid nodules, widespread over all joints; Z-thumb deformity; fixed flexion deformity on all fingers; swan neck deformity… The list seems endless, and Karan is impressed, needing to prompt Simi only once or twice.
In order to determine if a bitch is pregnant, a veterinarian can manually palpate her abdomen at about 25 days after breeding.
Using the soft pads of your thumb and index finger to palpate the caramels, tease them into the vinegar, saying, "Mummy knows what's best".
In "Meet the Fockers," Robert De Niro insists that Stiller palpate the "man-ary gland," a contraption for feeding milk to toddlers that De Niro's character made from a cast of his daughter Debbie's breast.
Annually, the publisher of Forbes invites eleven corporate potentates to Florida, where they spend a couple of nights aboard the company yacht, the Highlander, and, during the day, adroitly palpate each other's brains and size up each other's short games.
Medical schools in the United States have let the exam slide, Dr. Verghese says, noting that over time he has encountered more and more interns and residents who do not know how to test a patient's reflexes or palpate a spleen.
The notion that you might want to palpate your own cantaloupe was absurd.
"We'd palpate the legs, check the joints, looking for any sign of inflammation," Dr. Ted Hill, who worked for Dr. Gilman before succeeding him as chief examiner in 1981, said in an interview.
When you learn how to examine the female reproductive system in medical school, you generally work with a professional surrogate patient, and there is often a humiliating moment when you try to palpate the ovaries only to be told, in no uncertain terms, that you are way off-target.
Other times, the simple act of removing clothing to palpate or listen better has revealed lesions from benign to deadly — a missed melanoma on a sun-damaged back of an older patient, for instance.
It's when a doctor sits down and listens to their complaints, and has time to palpate a tender belly, to listen to a heart, to check the pallor under the eyelids and, only then, refer them for tests.
