PE Ears, nose and stuff

Question 1

What part of the ear extends slightly outward from the skull and is positioned on a nearly vertical plane?

Answer 1

Auricle

Question 2

What part of the Auricle:
the prominent outer rim

Answer 2

Helix

Question 3

What part of the Auricle:
is the area parallel and anterior to the helix

Answer 3

Antihelix

Question 4

What part of the Auricle:
is the deep cavity containing the auditory canal meatus

Answer 4

Concha

Question 5

What part of the Auricle:
is the protuberance lying anterior to the auditory canal meatus

Answer 5

Tragus

Question 6

What part of the Auricle:
is the protuberance on the antihelix opposite the tragus

Answer 6

Antitragus

Question 7

What part of the Auricle:
is the soft lobe on the bottom of the auricle

Answer 7

Lobule

Question 8

What is the S-shaped pathway, approximately 1 inch long, composed of bone and cartilage covered with thin, sensitive skin.

Answer 8

External auditory canal

Question 9

What are the three small connected bones hat transmit sound from the tympanic membrane to the oval window?
What are their names?

Answer 9

Ossicles
malleus, incus, and stapes

Question 10

what is the membranous, curved cavity inside a bony labyrinth consisting of the vestibule, semicircular canals, and cochlea?

Answer 10

Inner ear

Question 11

Cochlea transmits sound impulses to what CN?

Answer 11

CN VIII

Question 12

What is the cartilaginous, fibrous, and bony passageway between the nasopharynx and the middle ear

Answer 12

Eustachian tube

Question 13

Nasal floor is formed by what structures?

Answer 13

the hard and soft palate.

Question 14

Nasal roof is formed by what structures?

Answer 14

The frontal and sphenoid bone

Question 15

What lies on the roof of the nose and houses the sensory endings of the olfactory nerve?

Answer 15

Cribriform plate

Question 16

What is the convergence of small fragile arteries and veins, located on the anterior-superior portion of the septum

Answer 16

Kiesselbach plexus

Question 17

What ducts open on each side of the frenulum under the tongue?

Answer 17

Wharton ducts

Question 18

What drains saliva from the submandibular and sublingual glands to the sublingual caruncle at the base of the tongue

Answer 18

Wharton ducts

Question 19

What ducts are parotid gland outlets that open on the buccal mucosa opposite the second molar on each side of the upper jaw?

Answer 19

Stensen ducts

Question 20

What results from blunt trauma and necrosis of the
underlying cartilage of the ear?

Answer 20

Cauliflower ear

Question 21

What are small, whitish uric acid crystals along the peripheral margins of the auricles (may indicate gout)?

Answer 21

Tophi

Question 22

What are elevations in the skin with a punctum indicating a blocked sebaceous gland (common).

Answer 22

Sebaceous cysts

Question 23

Inflammation of the auditory canal and external surface of the tympanic membrane

Answer 23

Otitis externa

Question 24

Inflammation of the middle ear resulting in the collection of serous, mucoid, or purulent fluid (effusion) when the tympanic membrane is intact.

Answer 24

Otitis media with effusion

Question 25

Inflammation in the middle ear, associated with a middle ear effusion that becomes infected by bacterial organisms

Answer 25

Acute otitis media

Question 26

Abnormal squamous epithelial tissue behind the tympanic membrane

Answer 26

Cholesteatoma

Question 27

What type of hearing loss? Reduced transmission of sound to the middle ear

Answer 27

Conductive hearing loss

Question 28

What type of hearing loss? Reduced transmission of sound in the inner ear

Answer 28

Sensorineural hearing loss

Question 29

What dis Inner ear disorder characterized by episodes of hearing loss, vertigo, tinnitus, ear fullness

Answer 29

Ménière disease

Question 30

What dis Illusion of rotational movement by a patient, often due to a disorder of the inner ear

Answer 30

Vertigo

Question 31

What is a Bacterial infection of one or more of the paranasal sinuses?

Answer 31

Sinusitis

Question 32

What is an Infection of tonsils or posterior pharynx by microorganisms

Answer 32

Acute bacterial pharyngitis

Question 33

What is a Deep infection in the space between the palatine tonsil capsule and pharyngeal muscles?

Answer 33

Peritonsillar abscess

Question 34

What is A life-threatening deep neck space infection that has the potential to occlude the airway; occurs in the potential space extending from the base of the skull to the posterior mediastinum between the posterior pharyngeal wall and prevertebral fascia

Answer 34

Retropharyngeal abscess

Question 35

What is a chronic infection of the gums, bones, and other tissues that surround and support the teeth

Answer 35

Periodontal disease (Periodontitis)

Question 36

Anterior bleeds account for approximately what percentage of epistaxis?

Answer 36

90%

Question 37

Nosebleeds can be divided into what three groups?

Answer 37

Anterior, posterior, and mixed

Question 38

True/False Posterior bleeding from nosebleeds can be life-threatening and blood also usually runs down the back of the throat.

Answer 38

True