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Physical Examination (Exam I) Flashcards

1
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How deep would one palpate with light palpation technique?
Deep palpation technique?

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  • 1-2 cm
  • 4-5 cm
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What would be expected with tympanic, drum-like percussion?

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  • Air-containg space (puffed out cheek, gastric air bubble, etc.)
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What would be expected with resonant, hollow sounding percussion?

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  • Normal lungs
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What would be an expected finding with assessed hyper-resonant, booming percussive sounds?

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  • Emphysematous lungs
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What would be an expected finding with assessed dull, thud-like percussive sounds?

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  • Softer organs (ex. Liver)
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What would be an expected finding with assessed flat percussive sounds?

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  • Denser organs (ex. muscle)
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What temperature does one need to be to go to PACU?

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96°

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Approximately what should the axillary temp be in comparison to a core temperature?

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  • 1° lower
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What is Anthropometry?

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  • Scientific study of the measurements and proportions of the human body (height, weight, etc.)
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What is Mediate or Indirect Percussion?
How is it performed and what is its purpose?

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  • Plexor (striking finger) & pleximeter (finger being struck).
  • Evaluation of abdomen and thorax
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What is Immediate percussion? What is it utilized for?

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  • Striking of surface directly with fingers of the hand.
  • Adult sinus or infant thorax evaluation.
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What is Fist percussion? What is it utilized for?

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  • Flat hand on area to be evaluated being struck with a fist.
  • Used to evaluate the back & kidney for tenderness.
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What are the three forms of percussion?

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  • Mediate/Indirect percussion
  • Immediate percussion
  • Fist percussion
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When is circumoral cyanosis primarily seen?
How might circumoral cyanosis present on patients with darker skin tones?

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  • In infants primarily above the upper lip.
  • gray or white rather than blue
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What are situations that can cause jaundice?

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  • Acute liver inflammation
  • Inflammation/obstruction of the bile duct
  • Cholestasis
  • Hemolytic anemia
  • Gilbert’s syndrome
  • Crigler-Najjar syndrome
  • Dubin-Johnson syndrome
  • Pseudojaundice
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What causes pseudojaundice? How harmful is it?

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  • Harmless condition caused by excess carrots, pumpkins or melon consumption (↑ β-carotene)
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What is Gilbert’s syndrome?

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  • Inherited condition where enzymes can’t process bile excretion.
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What is Crigler-Najjar’s syndrome?

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  • Inherited condition where enzyme that processes bilirubin is ineffective.
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What is Dubin-Johnson syndrome?

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  • Inherited chronic jaundice where bilirubin can’t be secreted from the hepatic cells.
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What type of cells does vitiligo attack?

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  • Melanocytes
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What is the sign name of periorbital ecchymosis? What does it indicate?

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  • Battle’s Sign: indicates basilar skull fracture.
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What are petechiae indicative of?

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  • Thrombocytopenia
  • Leukemia
  • Infectious disease
  • Medications
  • Prolonged straining
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What is koilonychia? What is it often indicative of?

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  • Spoon-nails where nails become flat or convex. (opposite of clubbing)
  • Iron-deficiency anemia.
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What is nail clubbing? What is it often indicative of?

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  • Increased concavity of nails
  • Heart/lung diseases, also potential osteoarthropathies.
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What is paronychia?

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  • Inflammation of skin around the nail.
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What are Beau’s lines? What are they indicative of?

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  • Horizontal striations that develop on the nail.
  • Lots of things. Nail trauma, kidney failure, mumps, thyroid disorders, syphilis, etc.
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What is hirsutism? What is a common cause?

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  • Excessive hair growth often caused by PCOS.
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What is the name of notable difference in pupillary size between both eyes called?

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  • Anisocoria
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What is ectropion?

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  • Eversion of eyelid
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What is entropion?

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  • Inversion of eyelid
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What is Ptosis?

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  • Abnormal drooping of eyelid
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What is Arcus Senilis?

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  • Deposition of phospholipids/cholesterol in the peripheral cornea of older patients. (benign usually)
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33
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What occurs with the eyes during stage 2 of anesthesia?

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  • Roving eyeball (nystagmus?)
  • Partial pupillary dilation
  • Loss of eyelash reflex
  • No loss of eyelid reflex
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34
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What is ocular accomodation?

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  • Ability of eye to focus in on objects far away and close.
35
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What is most often the most important anesthetic consideration regarding the ears?

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  • Padding during surgery to prevent injury
36
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Differentiate Weber’s & Rinne’s tests.

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  • Weber: tuning fork held on the head (assesses left vs right ear hearing)
  • Rinne: tuning fork held to each ear.
37
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What are cherry-colored lips most often indicative of?

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  • Carbon monoxide poisoning
38
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Differentiate pallor & cyanosis presentations as well as what usually causes each.

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  • Pallor = pale (usually anemia)
  • Cyanosis = blue (hypoxia or hypoperfusion)
39
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What would be indicated by the presence of “spongy” gums?

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  • Bleeding due to Vit-C deficiency (scurvy?)
40
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What is Leukoplakia? What causes it?

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  • Thick white patches on the gums from smoking and/or alcohol
41
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Where is the apical pulse located?

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  • 5th Intercostal space, left of sternum, medial to left mid-clavicular line.
42
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How much assistance should a patient receive when a Mallampati assessment is being done?

43
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Chest pain in sync with respiratory movement could be indicative of what?

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  • Musculoskeletal abnormality or infection
44
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What can cause radial pulses to become unsymmetric?

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  • Clavicular fracture or aortic dissection
45
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How can Mg⁺⁺ evaluations be done in OB patients?

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  • Knee extension/flexion
46
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What capability is lost with peroneal nerve injury?

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  • Dorsiflexion
47
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What anesthetic consideration should one have for a patient with significant lordosis?

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  • ↑ abdominal pressure could = worse GERD.
  • Difficult spinal/epidural
48
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What anesthetic consideration should one have for a patient with significant kyphosis?

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  • Airway, ventilation, and positioning issues
49
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Patient judgement is relevant to obtaining _______ ________ whilst ________ is pertinent to the patient’s understanding of whats going on.

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  • informed consent; insight
50
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What test evaluates proprioception?
How is this test performed?

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  • Romberg Test
  • Standing with eyes closing and palms down; loss of balance is a + test
51
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What is a VAN exam?
What does being VAN positive indicate?

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  • Palms up, checking for downward drift.
  • VAN (+) = ↑ risk for LVO (large vessel occlusion)
52
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What is another name for plantar reflex?

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Babinski reflex

53
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When would a gluteal reflex be performed?

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  • Trauma patients in assessing pelvic injury
54
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How does one calculate BMI in imperial measurement?

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(703 x lbs) / inches²

55
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What endocrine disorder makes it difficult to manage fluid status?

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  • Pituitary tumors (think neurohypophysis ADH)
56
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What is G6PD deficiency?

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  • Lack of enzyme that results in RBCs breaking down faster than they are made.
57
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What are seizure meds effects on anesthesia?

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  • Seizure meds make anesthetics work less effectively.
58
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Which court case determined how informed consent should be obtained?

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  • Salvo vs Leland Stanford Univ.
59
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What MET capacity would indicate a patient is good to go for surgery from a cardiovascular fitness standpoint?

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  • MET of 5 or greater.
60
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What class of meds commonly given in anesthesia are teratogenic?

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  • Benzodiazepines
61
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What component of “ester” medications are people allergic to?

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  • PABA (Para-aminobenzoic acid)
62
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Which cardiac hypertension meds need to be discontinued prior to surgery? Why?

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  • ACEi & ARBs - can lead to severe hypotension.
63
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What needs to be checked pre-op with psych patients? Why?

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  • EKG for prolonged QT interval. Many psych meds prolong QT interval.
64
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Which meds cannot be given to a patient taking an MAOI?

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  • Meperidine & ephedrine
65
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P2Y12’s inhibitors and aspirin need to be discontinued ______ days prior to surgery.

When is the exception?

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  • 7 days
  • Exception: patient needs to complete 6 months of dual therapy before discontinuation of anything.
66
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Which herb tends to cause an allergic reaction peri-operatively?

67
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Which surgery times put one at a greater risk for PONV?

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  • Surgeries that are 1 - 4 hours in length. (shorter or longer are lower risk)
68
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How is a pack-year calculated?

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(Cigs per day / 20) x years smoked

69
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Bedridden, wheelchair-bound patients should not receive what drug?

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Succinylcholine

70
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What symptoms/signs point to Horner syndrome?
What most often causes it?

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  • One sided miosis, ptosis, & anhidrosis
  • Interscalene blocks
71
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Pill-rolling tremors are associated with what disorder?

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  • Parkinson’s
72
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What sign is it when one experiences RUQ pain along with cholecystitis?

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  • Murphy’s sign
73
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What vision change accompanies glaucoma?

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  • Tunnel vision
74
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What is the name for chest-clutching that occurs during MI?

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  • Levine’s sign
75
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What nerve runs along the breast that we should be aware of?

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  • Long thoracic nerve
76
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Where is the apical pulse?

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  • 5th ICS, left of sternum, mid-clavicular line
77
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What is the importance of blood in the urine when doing a c-section?

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Possible severed ureter

78
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Who is most at-risk for urinary retention post-operatively?

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  • BPH patients (old men)
79
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What drug treats preeclampsia?
How can you check for overdose with this drug?

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  • Magnesium
  • hypermagnesemia will cause patellar reflexes to disappear.
80
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Chipmunk face is associated with what disorder?

81
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Leoning face is associated with what disease?

82
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Spider angioma is associated with what liver disorder?

83
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Pyloric stenosis is associated with what shape mass?

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