Ballottement

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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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)

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Ballottements
possessive: Ballottement's
pluralpossessive: Ballottements'

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