Exam Findings Flashcards
Struggling for breath using muscles in neck
Accessory muscle use
Enlarged lymph nodes
Lymph adenopathy
Swooshing doing through stethoscope when artery is occluded
Bruit
Skinny
Cachectic
Enlargement of fingers and toes with chronic heart and lung
Clubbing
Cracking or grating sound usually of bones
Crepitus
Bluish skin lack of o2
Cyanotic
Redness of skin
Erythema
Fluid beneath skin indicative of infection
Fluctuance
Heart sound mimics gait of a horse related to abnormal ventricular contraction
Gallop
Muscle spasms of abd wall to protect inflamed and
Fuarding
Induration
Local hard area in skin
Murmur
Abnormal heart sound
Extreme paleness
Pallor
Wet crackling noises in lungs
Rales
Pain when releasing the hand from abd palpation
Rebound
Visible sinking between rids and neck during inhalation
Retraxtions
Rhinorrhea
Runny nose
Rattling noise if mucous in lungs
Rhochi
Stiffness on abd
Rigidity
Expelled from lungs by coughing
Sputum
High pitched sounds during breathing
Wheezing