Quiz 6 Flashcards
palpation detects…(4)…of organs or tumors
- size
- shape
- location
- texture
push on floating objects and it bounces back
ballottement
feeling of confined fluid
fluctuancy
sensation of vibration or friction
fremitus
grating/crackling felt by palpating or moving body partx
crepitus
elicited with palpation
tenderness
indirect percussion
finger tapping on finger
heard over lungs filled with air, hollow
resonant
drum-like sound over abdomen
typhany
solid organ in abdomen
dull or flat
abnormal sounds in abdomen
dull/flat
hyper resonant
auscultation is heard over…(4)
lungs
heart
abdomen
blood vessels
usual, ordinary, average, common
definition of normal
seen as “negative”
normal
seen as “positive”
abnormal
common phrases in PE (6)
- WNL
- appropriate, unremarkable
- intact
- patent
- no pathology
- benign