Usually means: Pressing to rebound floating object.
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  1. ballottement: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. ballottement: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ballottement: Vocabulary.com
  4. ballottement: Wordnik
  5. ballottement: Wiktionary
  6. ballottement: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. ballottement: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. ballottement: Dictionary.com
  9. Ballottement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. ballottement: Rhymezone
  11. ballottement: FreeDictionary.org
  12. ballottement: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. ballottement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. ballottement: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ballottement: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ballottement: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ballottement)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (medicine) An increased amount of fluid in the suprapatellar pouch of the knee.

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