Let us now together evaluate our patient’s precordial movement. Careful palpation reveals no area of movement except in one, and that is mid-clavicular line, fifth intercostal space. There is a movement. That is the location. And the next question is: what is the size? And the size of that movement is about a quarter-size. I can feel it clearly beneath my fingertips.
Choose the best description of the apical impulse: