What is the difference between a palpate and a palpitation?

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.

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.

Palpate means to : Feel whereas palpitations is a perceived change in heart rhythm.