General terms Flashcards
Angular stomatitis?
Angular stomatitis is a condition that causes red, swollen patches in the corners of your mouth where your lips meet and make an angle.
Medical conditions that can cause angular stomatitis?
- Anemia (Vit B or iron deficiency)
- Cancers of the blood
- Diabetes
- Down syndrome
- Immune disorders, like HIV
- Kidney, liver, lung, or pancreatic cancer
Goitre?
A swelling of the neck resulting from enlargement of the thyroid gland.
Causes of goitre?
- Lack of iodine (Most common worldwide)
- Graves’ disease
- Hashimoto’s disease
- Multinodular goitre
- Solitary thyroid nodules
- Thyroid cancer
- Inflammation
- Pregnancy
Lid lag?
Lid lag is the static situation in which the upper eyelid is higher than normal with the globe in downgaze. It is most often a sign of thyroid eye disease, but may also occur with cicatricial changes to the eyelid or congenital ptosis
Mastoiditis?
Mastoiditis is the result of an infection that extends to the air cells of the skull behind the ear.
Specifically, it is an inflammation of the mucosal lining of the mastoid antrum and mastoid air cell system inside the mastoid process.
Proptosis?
Proptosis is protrusion of the eyeball. Exophthalmos means the same thing, and this term is usually used when describing proptosis due to Graves disease.
Ptosis?
Ptosis is a drooping or falling of the upper eyelid.
Often referred to “lazy eye”
Torticollis?
Latin definition of torticollis means “twisted neck.”
Torticollis (wry neck, or loxia) is one of a broader category of disorders that exhibit flexion, extension, or twisting of muscles of the neck beyond their normal position.
The neck tends to twist to one side, causing head tilt.
Battle sign?
Bruising over the mastoid process as a result of extravasation of blood along the path of the posterior auricular artery.
Caused by traumatic basal skull fracture. Patient often has raccoon eyes as well.
