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Noun: tactual exploration
  1. A method of examination in which the examiner feels the size, shape, firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional)
    "The doctor used tactual exploration to assess the patient's abdominal pain";
    - palpation

Derived forms: tactual explorations

Type of: examination, scrutiny, touch, touching