Sentences with phrase «called palpation»
During open surgery, doctors rely on their sense of touch to identify the edges of hidden tumors and to locate hidden blood vessels and other anatomical structures: a procedure they call palpation.
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In order to provide the benefits of palpation to minimally invasive surgery, a team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University headed by Pietro Valdastri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and medicine, has designed a special - purpose wireless capsule equipped with a pressure sensor that fits through the small ports that surgeons use for what is also called «keyhole» surgery.
In the workshop weekends, you learn something called the Functional Evaluation (FE), which is a series of palpations on the body that are used for further assessment with clients.
The palpation method is called the Ortolani Sign.