heel-palms

Noun

heel-palm (plural heel-palms)

1. A blow in which the heel of the palm strikes an opponent.
   • ... and I smashed my hand down on the gun to my left and it roared and I felt for the man's throat and made the kill as the other man brought his gun up and fired wild and I went in very close and used a heel-palm and drove the nose bone upward into the brain as Ibrahimi screamed something and I...1992, Adam Hall, Quiller solitaire, →ISBN, page 244
2. (orthopedics) A technique for evaluating the reduction of a hip or femur by holding the patient's heels in one's palms with both legs in abduction and internal rotation, then noting the amount of external rotation of the feet when the internal rotation is released.
   • Whichever of these methods of manipulative reduction is used, a simple test for reduction, the Leadbetter heel-palm test, can be applied.1957, William E. Kenney, Carroll B.. Larson, Orthopedics for the General Practitioner, page 219

See all 3 meanings of heel-palm