Ballottement Definition

bə-lŏtmənt

noun

A technique for palpating internal organs, as to check for pregnancy or a floating kidney.

Webster's New World

A palpatory technique for detecting or examining a floating object in the body, as:

American Heritage Medicine

(medicine) A method of diagnosing pregnancy, in which the uterus is pushed with a finger to feel whether a foetus moves away and returns again.

Wiktionary

(medicine) An increased amount of fluid in the suprapatellar pouch of the knee.

Wiktionary

Origin of Ballottement

French from ballotter to toss from Italian ballotta diminutive of dialectal balla ball balloon

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From French ballottement, from ballotter (“ballot”).

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