Quiz Week 1

Question 1

What is Palpation?

Answer 1

The process of the examination of the body using the sense of touch.

Question 2

What is Palpation used for?

Answer 2

To determine texture, temperature, vibration, position, size, consistency, and mobility of organs or masses, distention, pulsation, and tenderness or pain.

Question 3

What is Auscultation?

Answer 3

The process of listening to sounds produced within the body

Question 4

What is Direct Auscultation?

Answer 4

Hearing sounds using the unaided ear. EX: respiratory wheezing

Question 5

What is Indirect Auscultation?

Answer 5

Hearing sounds using a stethoscope

Question 6

How are Auscultation sounds described?

Answer 6

-PITCH: Frequency of the vibration.
-INTENSITY: Loudness or softness of a sound.
-DURATION: Length (short or long)
-QUALITY: Subjective description

Question 7

What is Percussion?

Answer 7

The act of striking the body surface to elecit sounds that can be heard or vibrations that can be felt.

Question 8

What is Direct Percussion?

Answer 8

When the nurse (normally practicioners) strikes the area to be percussed directly with the pads of two, three, or four fingers or with the pad of the middle finger.

Question 9

What is Indirect Percussion?

Answer 9

The striking of an object held agaisnt the body area to be examined.

-PLEXIMETER: Middles finger of nondominant hand

-PLEXOR: The tip of the flexed middle finger of the dominant hand.

Question 10

What are the 5 sounds of Percussion?

Answer 10

1) FLATNESS: Extremely dull sound produced by a very dense tissue
2) DULLNESS: A thud like sound produced by dense tissue such as the liver, spleen, or heart.
3)RESONANCE: Hollow sound such as that produced by lungs filled with air.
4)HYPERRESONANCE: Not produced in the normal body, described as booming.
5)TYMPANY: Musical or drumlike sound produced from an air-filled stomach.

Question 11

What is Inspection?

Answer 11

Visual examination.

Question 12

What is Glaucoma?

Answer 12

The most frequent cause of blindness in people over age of 40, can happen in younger people.

-Disturbance in the circulation of aqueous fluid, which caused an increase in intraocular pressure.

Question 13

What are the S/S of glaucoma?

Answer 13

-Blurred or foggy vision
-Loss of peripheral vision
-Difficulty focusing on close objects
-Difficulty adjusting to dark rooms
-Seeing rainbow-colored rings around light

Question 14

What is Mydriasis?

Answer 14

Enlarged pupils

-May indicate injury or glaucoma or from certain drugs.

Question 15

What is Miosis?

Answer 15

Constricted pupils

-May indicate an inflammation of the iris or result from such drugs as narcotics

Question 16

What is Anisocoria?

Answer 16

Unequal pupils

-May result from CNS disorder

Question 17

What are Cataracts?

Answer 17

Opacity of the lens or its capsule, which blocks light rays, and frequently removed and replaced by a lens implant.

Question 18

What is Conjunctivitis?

Answer 18

Inflammation of the bulbar and palpebral conjunctiva. May result from foreign bodies, chemicals, allergenic agents, bacteria, or viruses.

Question 19

What is Rinne Test?

Answer 19

Primarily used to evaluate loss of hearing.

It compares perception of sounds transmitted by air conduction to those transmitted by bone conduction through the mastoid.

Question 20

What is Weber test?

Answer 20

Screening test for hearing performed with a tuning fork.

It can detect unilateral conductive hearing loss (middle ear) and unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (inner ear hearing loss).

Question 21

What is Cerumen?

Answer 21

Earwax that lubricates and protects the canal.

Question 22

What is Glossitis?

Answer 22

Inflammation of the tongue.

Question 23

What is Parotitis?

Answer 23

Inflammation of the parotid salivary gland.

Question 24

What is Normacephalic?

Answer 24

Normal head size

Question 25

What is Exophthalmos?

Answer 25

Protrusion of the eyeballs with elevation of the upper eyelids, resulting in startled or staring expression.

-Caused by hyperthyroidism

Question 26

What is Astigmatism?

Answer 26

An uneven curvature of the cornea that prevents horizontal and vertical rays from focusing on the retina.

Question 27

What is Clubbing?

Answer 27

A condition in which the angle between the nail and the nail bed in 180 degrees, or greater.

-Caused by a long-term lack of oxygen.

Question 28

What is Myopia?

Answer 28

Nearsightedness.
-Good far vision, bad near vision.

Question 29

What is Alopecia?

Answer 29

Hair loss

Question 30

What is Sim Position?

Answer 30

Side-lying position with low-ermost arm behind the body, uppermost leg flexed at hip and knee, upper arm flexed at shoulder and elbow.

Question 31

What is Fowlers Position?

Answer 31

Sitting position, head of bed is typically elevated to 45 or 60 degrees.

Question 32

What is Lithotomy Position?

Answer 32

A supine position of the body with the legs separated, flexed, and supported in raised stirrups. Used for childbirth.

Question 33

What is Prone Position?

Answer 33

Position of the body lying face down.

Question 34

What is Dorsal Recumbant Position?

Answer 34

Back-lying position with knees flexed and hips externally rotated; small pillow under the head; soles of feet on the surface.