Nose And Mouth Flashcards
Drainage from the nose
Rhinorrhea
Sense of stuffings or obstruction
Nasal congestion
It may be due to nutritional deficiency or over closure of the mouth or seen people with no teeth
Angular cheilitis
Results from excessive exposure to sunlight and affects primarily the lower lip
actinic cheilitis
Recurrent and painful vesicular eruptions of the lips
Herpes simplex
Cold sore
Fever blister
Prominent small brown pigmented spots in the dermal layer of the lips, buccal mucosa and perioral area
Due to GI cancer
Peutz Jeghers syndrome
Midline bony growth in the hard palate
Torus palatinus
Lost its papillae suggests in riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, vitamin b12
Smooth tongue
Atrophic glossitis
Whitish raised area with a feathery or corrugated patten most often affect the sides of the tongue that cannot be scraped off
Hairy leukoplakia
Normal sebaceous glands that appear as small yellowish spots in the buccal mucosa or on the lips.
Fordyce spots