Examination

Definition process of experimentally obtaining one or more values that can reasonably be attributed to a property
Scope

Examination is a generic concept

In health care, it is an intervention that has the purpose to explore the patient’s health condition.

Examples
  • Auscultation of a patient’s heart and lungs.
  • Palpation of a patient’s stomach
  • Examination of a patient’s nucleotide sequence of the HFE-gene
  • Measurement of a patient’s body weight
Non-recommended term investigation, evaluation
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