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18 Cards in this Set
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Percussion
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Tapping the skin with the fingertips to vibrate underlying tissues and organs
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Auscultation
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Listening to sounds the body makes to detect variations from normal
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Cyanosis
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Bluish discoloring in the lips, nail beds, palpebral conjuntivae, and palms.
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Jaundice
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Yellow orange discoloring usually on patients sclera
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Erythema
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Red discoloration indicating circulatory change.
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Indurated
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Hardened skin
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Turgor
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Elasticity of the skin
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Petechiae
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Nonblanching pinpoint size red or purple spots on skin cause by hemorrhages in the skin layers.
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Edema
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Areas of skin with a build of of fluid and can appear swollen looking.
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Alopecia
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Hairloss
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Nystagmus
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An involuntary, rhythmical oscillation of the eyes, occurs as a result of local injury to eye muscles and supporting structures or a disorder of the cranial nerves innervating the muscles.
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Ptosis
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An abnormal drooping of the eyelid over the pupil.
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Ectropion
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Eye lid margins that turn out
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Entropion
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Eye lid margins that turn in.
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Conjunctivitis
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A highly contagious infection of the eye.
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Arcus Senilis
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Thin white ring along the margin of the iris.
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PERRLA
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Pupils, Equal, Round, Reactive to light, and Accommodation.
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Ototoxcity
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Injury to the auditory nerve.
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