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ballottement

bal·lot·te·ment

uncommon

noun

1.

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)

Origin

From French ballottement, from ballotter (“ballot”).

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