palpation is using your hands to put pressure on a persons body to feel what is underneath the visible outer layer, light palpation is doing that but only depressing the skin 1-2 cm

palpation

In nursing and in medicine, using the hands to examine a body and its structures is called palpation.

During clinical assessment after inspection comes palpation. Palpation is to enable diagnosis. As palpation of closed package helps guess what is inside the package so too palpation helps arrive at clinical signs. Is the enlarged liver in the abdomen hard or soft can be told by palpation. Methods like palpation were essential for the doctors to know what is wrong with the human body.

Palpation is the act of feeling the doe rabbit's abdomen to determine if she is pregnant or not.