Palpation
Palpation of the abdomen should always ensure the feeling of areas that might otherwise be forgotten:
- feel the supraclavicular fossa for lymph nodes
- feel the hernial orifices at rest and when the patient coughs: external inguinal ring, femoral canal and umbilicus
- feel for femoral pulses
- examine the external genitalia
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