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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A further clinical examination is time consuming since it entails preparing another feed and watching or palpating the abdomen throughout a feed.
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A large abdominal faecal mass was palpated in 42% of patients, indicating a severe form of constipation.
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Another 7% had a mass palpated before imaging, giving a total of 87% of cases that were diagnosed clinically.
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Not so the beetle grubs, even after I squeeze them, palpate them, and breathe on them.
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The art of palpating for a pyloric mass should be taught by experienced senior staff to junior staff and students.
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The increasing reliance on imaging suggests that the technique of palpating a pyloric tumour is a declining art.
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They palpated the lumps, the pea-shaped thing and the horse-shoe-shaped thing.