Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ballottement

1 sense of ballottement

Sense 1
ballottement -- (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))
       => palpation, tactual exploration -- (a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional))