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| greater than 2 standard deviations |
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| fluid accumulated in the head, pushes fontanels apart and may increase cranial pressure |
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| overproduction of growth hormone from the pituitary gland |
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| frontal and parietal bones are building forward. may be caused by rickets (vitamin D deficiency) |
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| movable non tender mass on the scalp which moves back and forth. due to sebaceous glands getting clogged and forming cysts. |
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| increased adrenal production |
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| decreased adrenal production |
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| yellow raised plaque seen in the eyelids or nasal bridges, due to lipid deposits. |
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| 4-6 diamers closes at about 9 months-2 years. |
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| close at around 2 months. if fontanels are sunken in it may be from dehydration |
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| trauma coming down the birth canal. dissapears in 2 weeks. |
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| if one fontanel closes to early it can lead to an assymetrical head |
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| special filter tissue high in WBC's returns fluid to lood. debri gets dumped into lymph nodes and WBC's in lymph kill bacteria |
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| cancer may cause lymph inflamation, beginning stages can be palpated but not seen. late inflamtion is so big you can see them. |
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| enlargment of the thyroid. |
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| hollow bones where bacteria can end up, causing sinusitis. |
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| spenoid, ethmoid, frontal, and maxillary |
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| the nose is made of cartilage, dryness of mucosa, toruble breathing or epistaxis (nose bleads) occurs. |
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| swollen gums due to vitamin c deficiency, poor hygiene can lead to dark line around gingival margin |
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| bluish spots, represent the prodromal phase of measles. |
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| side of tongue has crusty cottage cheese looking substance. may be thrush or a precancerous lesion. |
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| teeth get grond down from grinding your teeth |
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| breath sounds normally heard in the bases of the lungs |
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| high pitched crowing sound from the upper airway |
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| when the patiend talks softly the sound is heard loudly |
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| bronchovesicular breath sounds |
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| sounds normally heard at the second intercoastal space anteriorly |
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| fine popping noises in the lungs that are abnormal |
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| when the patient says "eee" the sound is "aaa" |
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| adventitious breath sounds |
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| term for breath sounds that are abnormal or extra |
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| breath sounds normally heard over the trachea |
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| whistling musical abnormal sound in the lung |
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| when the patient says "99" the sound is clear and loud |
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| boarder btwn iris and sclera |
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| produces tears, washes down the surface of the eye, keeps eye moist and lubricated. |
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| eye become dry. affects women more then men because androgens protect against dry eye. can be treated by eating omega 3 fatty acids and eye drops. |
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| inflammation of the lacrimal gland. dry eye occurs in absence of this condition. |
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| inflammation of the lacrimal sac, producing excessive tearing.dry eye occurs in absence of this condition. |
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| attached to a muscle called the ciliary body, when ciliary body contracts the lens enlarge. when ciliary body relaxes the lens get small |
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| back of the eye, made up of rods and cones sensitive to light, rods work in the night (dark), cones work in the day (light). all the light is transferred into the optic nerve as "nerve energy" the optic nerve sends signal to occipital lobe. how we see. |
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| lens become opaque and light cant be shined through. |
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| gelatenous fluid in the center of the eye |
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| chamber in the front of the eye, it is produced and then absorbed. if more aqueous humor is produced then is absored the pressure builds up and may result in glaucoma which eventually damages optic disk. |
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| macula or fovea centralis |
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| area of the retina with increased concentration of cones. |
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| the extension of the choroid. ir depends on choroid for nourishment. |
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| infection of the follicle of eyelash. AKA stye. painful |
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| cyst on the eyelid, lump or bump, nontender. |
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| inward rolling of the eyelid |
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| rolling outward of eyelid. leads to dry eye. |
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| eyeball sinks in to socket of the skull |
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| eyeball pops out of socket may be caused by hypothyroidsim. |
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| involuntary twitching of both eyelids |
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| drooping of one eyelid. may be caused by stroke or muscular weakness. |
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| fairly transparent memebrane that becomes inflammed. blood vessels dilate and turns eye pink. AKA pink eye |
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| subconjuctival hemorrhage |
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| causes capillaries in eye to break, blood will be eventually absorbed by the eye |
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| if conjunctiva loosens it may form layers and make light even harder to go in. may eventually lead to blindness. |
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| circle of cludy to white/gray blue around the iris, occurs mostly in older adults. |
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| "cross eyed" when person does not have binocular vision and NOT ABLE TO FOCUS BOTH EYES ON ONE AREA. may have depth perception issues. |
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| ask person to look at light in the nose with both eyes, we should see a reflection fo the light in both eyes. |
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| rhytmic osolation of the eyes. eyes sway nack and forth when asked to lookin in one direction. due to weak extra ocular eye muscles. |
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| pupils equal round and reactive to light, accomodation |
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| visual acuity (snellin eye chart) |
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| make note when patient misses 50% of the letters on the line. Ex: 20/40 (at 20 feet you could read what a normal person could see at 40 feet) |
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- OD=right eye
- OS= left eye
- OU= both eyes |
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| when light is aimed at pupi of eye and illuminates retina it creates a red reflex. |
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| when optic disks are blurry it means person is experiencing intracranial pressure, causing edema in the optic disk. |
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| AV nicking can indicate hypertension. |
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| "cotton ball" structures floating in the eye, may indicate diabetes |
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| consists of tympanic membrane to the chochlea. including the eustarian tube |
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| equalizes pressure in the ear and goes down to pharynx |
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| vibration of sound waves hit the eardrum (tympanic membrane) and goes to auditory ossicles called incus stapes and malleus. the vibrations go to the first part of cochlea called the oval window. stimulates fluid waves to move and causes nerve endins to move and be translated from pressure energy to wave enery, then to nerve neergy. it then goes throught nerves into brain and we interpret it. |
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| fluid in semicircular canals which get altered when you are off balance and tells the brain. |
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| middle ear infection. no light reflex, no incus shape, bright red color (in acute infection), amber or yellow color (chronic infection) |
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| white spots on tympanic membrane |
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| bleading behind tympanic membrane |
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| perforation, punctured ear drum |
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| conduction hearing vs sensorinural hearing |
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| conduction hearing is when sound is being conducted through air. sensorinural hearing is when sound is being heard through nerves. |
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