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English noun: ballottement

1. ballottement (act) 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)


Broader (hypernym)palpation, tactual exploration









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