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ballottements

ballottements is the plural of ballottement.

Meaning of ballottement

Noun

ballottement (countable and uncountable, plural ballottements)

  1. (historical) A method of diagnosing pregnancy, in which the uterus is pushed with a finger to feel whether a foetus moves away and returns again.
  2. An increased amount of fluid in the suprapatellar pouch of the knee.

Questions about ballottements

What is ballottements the plural of?
Ballottements is the plural of ballottement.

Words near ballottements in the dictionary

  1. ballotte
  2. ballotted
  3. ballottee
  4. ballottees
  5. ballottement
  6. ballottements
  7. ballottes
  8. ballotting
  9. ballotté
  10. ballottés
  11. Ballou

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballottements (page history and authors); ballottement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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