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BALLOTTEMENT
ballottement
(noun) a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ballottement (countable and uncountable, plural ballottements)
(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.
(medicine) An increased amount of fluid in the suprapatellar pouch of the knee.
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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