HEENT Flashcards
Protruding eyes:
Exophthalmos
Graves disease
Drooping upper eyelid:
Ptosis
Lower lid loose and rolling out:
Ectropion
Lower eyelid rolling in:
Entropion
Unequal pupil size:
Anisocoria
Constricted and fixed pupils:
Miosis
Occurs with the use of pilocarpine drops for glaucoma treatment, the use of narcotics, with iritis, and with brain damage of the pons.
Localized staphylococcal infection of the hair follicles at the lid margin:
Hordeolum (stye)
A beady nodule protruding on the lid, an infection or retention cyst of a meibomian gland:
Chalazion
Red, beefy-looking vessels at the periphery but looks clearer around the iris:
Conjunctivitis
Infection of the conjunctiva. Bacterial or viral infection.
Allergy or chemical irritant.
Often accompanies an upper respiratory infection.
PURULENT discharge accompanies bacterial infection.
When a light is directed at the blind eye and there is no response, but when light directed at other eye, both pupils constrict:
Monocular blindness.
Enlarged and fixed pupils:
Mydriasis
Stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system, reaction of sympathomimetic drugs, use of dilating drops, acute glaucoma, and past or recent trauma. May also indicate CNS injury, cardiac arrest, or deep anesthesia.
Nose bleed:
Epistaxis
Inflammation of the tongue:
Glossitis
Pertaining to or resembling jaundice:
Icteric
PERRL?
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Excessive cerebral spinal fluid:
Hydrocephaly