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palpator (s) (noun), palpators (pl)
Someone who examines, or those who explore, by touching an organ or an area of a body; usually, for diagnostic reasons: As palpators, the blind men were trying to identify the various parts of the elephant's body and this illustration shows where each one is feeling in order to determine what he thinks the creature is like.

Go to this Blind Men and the Elephant page so you can see the results of their "palpations".
Blind-men are examining the body of an elephant .
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This entry is located in the following units: -or; -our (primarily British) (page 10) palp-, palpo-, palpi- (page 2)