Term: 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)
Candidate hypernym: palpation: 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) → 1
Candidate hypernym: caput: a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure → 0
Candidate hypernym: fleet: group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership → 0
Candidate hypernym: dime: a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar → 0
Candidate hypernym: hope chest: chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage → 0
Candidate hypernym: tramp: a heavy footfall → 0
Candidate hypernym: bread-bin: a container used to keep bread or cake in → 0
Candidate hypernym: debt limit: the maximum borrowing power of a governmental entity → 0
Candidate hypernym: run-on sentence: an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction → 0
Candidate hypernym: butt hinge: a hinge mortised flush into the edge of the door and jamb → 0
Candidate hypernym: sacrifice: the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity → 0