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The physical examination is the examination of the patient looking for signs of 
disease ('Symptoms' are what the patient volunteers, 'Signs' are what the 
healthcare provider detects by examination). The healthcare provider uses the 
senses of sight, hearing, touch, and sometimes smell (taste has been made redundant
 by the availability of modern lab tests). Four chief methods are used: inspection, 
 palpation (feel), percussion (tap to determine resonance characteristics), and 
 auscultation (listen); smelling may be useful (e.g. infection, uremia, diabetic 
 ketoacidosis). The clinical examination involves study of: