As nouns,
ballottement is a hyponym of
tactual exploration; that is,
ballottement is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
tactual exploration:
- tactual exploration: a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional)
- ballottement: a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus)