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What does fluctuant mean?

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Adjective
  1. That fluctuates, or causes fluctuation
  2. (medicine) Used to describe a fluid-filled structure, such as an abscess, that produces a wave-like motion when palpated
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A tool will sometimes impose itself as being that corresponding to the tonality of what we discover in the course of creating, but it is very fragile and fluctuant.
It may present clinically as a fluctuant buccal or palatal swelling, with or without a draining fistula.
The head appeared atraumatic and normocephalic with a 4 x 5 cm soft, fluctuant area over the parietal region.
A tender, fluctuant 8-cm mass was felt in the right upper quadrant, several centimeters inferior to a subcostal scar from a previous open cholecystectomy.
This is increasingly the face of religion in America — fluid, fluctuant, questioning, nonconformist and in many cases unaffiliated.
With fluctuant blackness against immutable blackness great sweeping pine trees swished weirdly into the horizon.

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