The ob-gyn uses two fingers to palpitate the organs inside while pressing on the patient's abdomen from the outside, the so-called bimanual exam. ❋ Melinda Beck (2011)
But Dr. Westhoff and her co-authors point out that bimanual exams don't lead to earlier diagnoses of ovarian cancer and aren't recommended for that purpose by ACOG, the American Cancer Society or the U.S. ❋ Melinda Beck (2011)
Odds of survival are much greater when diagnosed early, but studies show that the bimanual check is not effective in finding Stage 1 cancers. ❋ Melinda Beck (2011)
He says she appears to live in an “emotional dead zone” and that he “wants to shake her, but [does] the Pap and bimanual exam instead.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
Many of these can be felt with a bimanual exam before they cause symptoms, and early intervention can stave off fertility problems and pain. ❋ Melinda Beck (2011)
These same brain changes are seen when people learn skills that require bimanual coordination or coordination of both arms, which is so important for many sports and musical activities such as playing the piano or serving in tennis. ❋ Ph.D. Sian Beilock (2010)
If I find I have to use that hand, I change the glove before doing the bimanual. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2007)
I didn't like seeing the doc in the video touching everything in the room with the gloved hand she was going to be using for the bimanual. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2007)
(Sometimes I think the bimanual exam needs to be replaced with a vaginal probe exam ...) ❋ Aka TBTAM (2007)
A routine gynecological checkup should include an examination of your external genitals vulva, a vaginal exam aided by a speculum, a bimanual internal exam, and a rectal examination. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)
The exam should include careful visual inspection of the vagina and cervix, gentle palpation of the vaginal walls, separate Pap smears from the cervix and from the surfaces of the upper vagina, and a bimanual pelvic exam see p. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)
Having a patient perform a bimanual task without watching his hands (such as lacing a shoe placed in front of him) tests the corpus callosum, which must be intact if the two hands (without visual input) are to “know” what each is doing in the task. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)
-- If withdrawal be made a bimanual procedure it is almost certain that the foreign body will trail a centimeter or more beyond the tube mouth, and that the closure of the glottic chink as soon as the distal end of the bronchoscope emerges will strip the foreign body from the forceps grasp, when the foreign body reaches the cords. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)
With the bronchoscopic lip and the forceps or other instrument inserted through the tube, the bronchoscopist has bimanual, eye-guided control, which if it has been sufficiently practiced to afford the facility in coordinate use common to everyone with knife and fork, will accomplish maneuvers that seem marvelous to anyone who has not developed facility in this coordinate use of the bronchoscopic instruments. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)
For instance, he suggests the possibility of being able to feel a stone in the bladder by means of bimanual palpation. ❋ James Joseph Walsh (1903)
That the reader may understand that I have a very good foundation for my strenuous objections to the usual _bimanual examinations practiced upon all appendicitis cases, _I shall quote a description of what one of America's recognized diagnosticians, Dr.G. M. Edebohls, considers a correct examination and he declares that anything short of such an examination is useless and untrustworthy: ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)
For, my word for it, if he can't weigh symptoms and tell whether or not you have complete obstruction without punching holes in you with his bimanual manipulation, neither would he be able to do so after examining you. ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)
Just imagine, reader, what a difference there would have been in this case if the poor, miserable victim had been allowed the quiet he so much needed -- if he had been left without daily bimanual examinations, food and drugs. ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)
