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palpate Zoology of, relating to, or possessing a palp or palps How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| As true to materials as his dad, no form of contact is too literal: He rollerblades on pater's plaza at the Salk Institute in La Jolla (to the sappy strains of "Long May You Run"), even palpates his neckties, as if to channel the dead. The examiner palpates over the site gently and feels for "spasm" while examining the skin for tenderness or redness. Or he "has fun with" allegory in The Wizard, 1994, a coarse picture of a shrunken, clownlike man with fat red lips, his mascara-smeared eyes closed in rapture as he palpates a young lady's fleshy bosom. |
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