Integumentary

Question 1

risk for skin cancer

Answer 1

male gender, history of melanoma, over 50 years of age, change to moles, over 50 moles, red or light hair, light eyes, light skin, actinic lentigenes, UV exposure, blistering sun burns in childhood, immunosuppression, family history

Question 2

D stands for diameter what is the size of lesions

Answer 2

lesions greater than 6 mm, about the size off a pencil eraser

Question 3

what is the order of examination for any system

Answer 3

inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion

Question 4

alopecia

Answer 4

patchy loss of hair

Question 5

lateral loss of eyebrows may indicate

Answer 5

hypothyroidism

Question 6

hirsuitism

Answer 6

excessive hair on women caused yb acromegaly, hypothyroidm, steroids, phenytoin, ovarian, adrenal

Question 7

fine, oily, silky skin indicates

Answer 7

hyperthrydoism

Question 8

dry, course, thinning skin indicates

Answer 8

hypothyroidism

Question 9

red skin caused by

Answer 9

polycythemia, CO poisoning, drug reaction, exanthem, increased blood flow

Question 10

skin mobility

Answer 10

ease of lifting upwards

Question 11

skin mobility is decreased in

Answer 11

edema, scleroderm

Question 12

turgor

Answer 12

rapidity of return (decreased in dehydration)

Question 13

three general symptoms of bell’s palsy

Answer 13

smoothing out of forehead, eyebrow droop, and drooping of corner of the mouth

Question 14

if a patient presents with an ear complaint which ear do you examine first

Answer 14

the asymptomatic ear

Question 15

size of tuning fork used ro weber test

Answer 15

512 Hz

Question 16

if air conduction is greater than bone conduction

Answer 16

rinne positive

Question 17

if bone conduction is greater than air conduction then

Answer 17

rinne negative (conductiive hearing loss)

Question 18

straightening the ear canal for adults

Answer 18

up back out

Question 19

children straightening the ear canal

Answer 19

down back and out

Question 20

alopecia

Answer 20

localized or diffuse hair loss classified as scarring or nonscarring

Question 21

hypertrichosis

Answer 21

diffuse increase in body hair commonly associated with medications such as phenytoin, glucocorticoids, minoxidil and cyslosporin

Question 22

infestations

Answer 22

parasitic infections commonly involving areas of hair growth

Question 23

macule

Answer 23

flat skin lesion less than 10mm in diameter that varies from the surrounding skin by coolor but not by teture of thickness

Question 24

patch

Answer 24

a macule that is larger than 10mm in size

Question 25

papule

Answer 25

elevated solid skin lesion that is less than 1 cm in diamter

Question 26

plaque

Answer 26

circumscribed elevated, superficial solid lesion greater than 1 cm diamter often it si formed by confluence of pauples

Question 27

nodule

Answer 27

a circumscribed, elevated, solid lesion greater than 1 cm in diameter, large nodules are referred to as tumors

Question 28

vesicle

Answer 28

circumscribed collection of free fluid that is less tahn .5 cm in diamter

Question 29

circumscribed collection of free fluid grater tahn .5 cm in diamter

Answer 29

bulla

Question 30

pustule

Answer 30

a vesicle that contains inflammatory cells or as the name implies pus, causing the fluid to appear cloudy or purulent