Palpation
The term for the use of hands to examine the body is palpation. It involves using touch to feel for abnormalities, tenderness, or changes in tissues such as muscles, organs, or joints. Palpation is commonly used in medical examinations by healthcare professionals.
Palpation is the most common examination technique using the hands. Percussion usually uses the hands as well.
Using the term fault in basketball is the same as using the term foul. It means that you touched someone while they had the ball in their hands.
The term "hands" is derived from people who did physical work (e.g. farm "hands")
Arthrology means study of joints.arthrology
The formal term for body language is nonverbal communication. It includes gestures, facial expressions, body movements, and posture that convey messages without using words.
Acromegaly is the term meaning enlargement of the hands and feet.
The medical term for an instrument used to examine the kidney is "nephroscope." It is a specialized tool that is inserted through a small incision to visualize and examine the inner structures of the kidney for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
This is a literary term which means using a part to represent the whole, or vice versa. Here are some sentences.Synecdoche is a subset of metonymy."The city posted signs" is an example of a synecdoche.Authors will often use a synecdoche such as "the gray-beard" to refer to their characters.
This is the placement of the body that is acceptable by anatomists world-wide.The person is standing erect with arms at sides, palms forward. The body is always described in this position, whether laying face down/up on the examining table.If they are facing you, they will be a mirror image of you.
A biopsy is the medical term that describes the procedure of removing tissue from a living body for examination under a microscope. This procedure helps in diagnosing diseases and determining the characteristics of the tissue sample.
The plural of colonoscopy is colonoscopies. This term refers to multiple procedures that involve examining the colon using a flexible camera. Each colonoscopy is typically performed for diagnostic purposes or screening for conditions like colorectal cancer.