palp-, palpo-, palpi- +
(Latin: to touch gently, to stroke; to pat)
palpitant
1. Shaking; trembling.
2. Undergoing pulsation; pulsating.
3. Affected or characterized by palpitation.
palpitate
1. To move with a slight tremulous motion; to tremble, to shake, or to quiver.
2. To beat with excessive rapidity; to throb.
3. A reference to the heart that beats in an irregular or unusually rapid way, either because of a medical condition or because of exertion, fear, or anxiety.
palpitating
1. To move with a slight tremulous motion; to tremble, to shake, or to quiver.
2. To beat with excessive rapidity; to throb.
palpitation
A patient's own sensation of an irregular or accelerated heartbeat.
palpocil
1. In some hydroids (freshwater coelenterates or invertebrates; such as, jellyfish), a filamentous tactile (touching) process.
2. A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.
palpus, palp (s), palpi (pl)
A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; such as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi.
sphygmopalpation
The act of palpating or feeling the pulse.
thermopalpation
Clinical observation of local temperature by palpation (feeling with the hands during a physical medical examination).
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