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  • English Word Palpability Definition The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.
  • English Word Palpable Definition Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
  • English Word Palpable Definition Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.
  • English Word Palpation Definition Act of touching or feeling.
  • English Word Palpation Definition Examination of a patient by touch.
  • English Word Palpator Definition One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
  • English Word Palpebra Definition The eyelid.
  • English Word Palpebrae Definition of Palpebra
  • English Word Palpebral Definition Of or pertaining to the eyelids.
  • English Word Palped Definition Having a palpus.
  • English Word Palpi Definition pl. of Palpus. (Zool.) See Palpus.
  • English Word Palpi Definition of Palpus
  • English Word Palpicorn Definition One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennae, and long maxillary palpi.
  • English Word Palpifer Definition Same as Palpiger.
  • English Word Palpiform Definition Having the form of a palpus.
  • English Word Palpiger Definition That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.
  • English Word Palpigerous Definition Bearing a palpus.
  • English Word Palpitant Definition Palpitating; throbbing; trembling.
  • English Word Palpitate Definition To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.
  • English Word Palpitated Definition of Palpitate
  • English Word Palpitating Definition of Palpitate
  • English Word Palpitation Definition A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.
  • English Word Palpless Definition Without a palpus.
  • English Word Palpocil Definition A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.
  • English Word Palprbrate Definition Having eyelids.
  • English Word Palpus Definition A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.
  • English Word Palsgrave Definition A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.
  • English Word Palsgravine Definition The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
  • English Word Palsical Definition Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic.
  • English Word Palsied Definition Affected with palsy; paralyzed.