Chapter 9: Techniques and Equipment

Question 1

vibratory tremors felt through the chest wall

Answer 1

fremitus

Question 2

light palpation depth?

Answer 2

1cm

Question 3

moderate palpation depth?

Answer 3

1 to 2 cm

Question 4

deep palpation depth?

Answer 4

2 to 4 cm

Question 5

taping the body with the fingertips of the dominant hand

Answer 5

direct percussion

Question 6

Places the palm of the non dominant hand flat against the body surface and striking through the non dominant hand with the dominant hand using a closed fist

Answer 6

blunt percussion

Question 7

hammer or tapping finger used to strike an object

Answer 7

plexor

Question 8

“measure” the device that accepts the tap or blow from a hammer

Answer 8

pleximeter

Question 9

Take finger and put another finger (other hand) to use as a barrier and tap on the barrier to hear sound

Answer 9

indirect percussion

Question 10

loud, high-pitched, drum like tone of medium duration characteristic of an organ filled with air (gastric bubble in stomach or air-filled intestines)

Answer 10

tympany

Question 11

loud, low pitched, hollow tone of longer duration (normal in lungs)

Answer 11

resonance

Question 12

abnormally loud, low tone of longer duration that resonance. (air trapped in the lungs)

Answer 12

hyperresonance

Question 13

high-pitched tone that is soft and of short duration (solid body organs such as liver or stool-filled colon)

Answer 13

dullness

Question 14

high-pitched tone, very soft, and of very short duration (solid tissue such as muscle or bone)

Answer 14

flatness

Question 15

softness or loudness of sound

Answer 15

intensity or amplitude

Question 16

number of vibrations of sound per second

Answer 16

pitch or frequency

Question 17

length of time of the produced sound

Answer 17

duration

Question 18

recognizable overtones produced by the vibration

Answer 18

quality

Question 19

listening to the sounds produced by the body

Answer 19

auscultation

Question 20

measures the degree of joint flexion and extension

Answer 20

goniometer

Question 21

measures the thickness of subcanteous tissue

Answer 21

skinfold clippers

Question 22

detects blood, fluid or masses in body cavities

Answer 22

transilluminator

Question 23

detect fungal infections of the skin

Answer 23

woods lamp

Question 24

transmits high-pitched sounds such as lung and heart sounds

Answer 24

diaphragm of stethoscope

Question 25

detects low-frequency sounds such as heart murmurs

Answer 25

bell of stethoscope

Question 26

use ultrasonic waves to detect sounds that are difficult to hear with a regular stethoscope (fetal heart sounds & peripheral pulses)

Answer 26

doppler ultrasonic stethoscope

Question 27

inspect internal eye structures

Answer 27

ophthalmoscope

Question 28

emits a large, full spot for viewing dilated pupils

Answer 28

large aperture of ophthalmoscope

Question 29

used for undilated pupils

Answer 29

small aperture of ophthalmoscope

Question 30

shines a green beam used to examine the optic disc for pallor or hemorrhaging which appears black with this filter

Answer 30

red-free filter of ophthalmoscope

Question 31

can asses size, location and pattern or lesions

Answer 31

grid of ophthalmoscope

Question 32

examination of anterior eye and aids in assessing the elevation or depression of lesions

Answer 32

slit of ophthalmoscope

Question 33

inspect external ear structures

Answer 33

otoscope