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What is the difference between a palpate and a palpitation?
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Totally different: To palpate means to touch and feel. In examining your abdomen the doctor palpates. A palpitation is a feeling you have in your chest that the heart is skipping or beating hard and fast.
Answered 9/3/2013
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Any dictionary: Can answer this: palpate = feel with your hands, palpitate = sensed skipped or extra beats in the heart. See my book "maximum healing" & my www.Thepmc.Org website.
Answered 2/8/2017
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Palpate means to : Feel whereas palpitations is a perceived change in heart rhythm.
Answered 4/12/2017
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