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30 Cards in this Set
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Rigid bony box that protects the brain and special sense organs, includes the bones of the cranium and face.
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SKULL
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Adjacent cranial bones unite at meshed immovable joints called...
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SUTURES
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This suture crowns the head from ear to ear at the union of the frontal and parietal bones.
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CORONAL
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This suture separates the head lengthwise between the two parietal bones.
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SAGITTAL
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This suture separates the parietal bones crosswise from the occipital bone.
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LAMBDOID
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There are 14 of these that articulate at the sutures, excpet for the mandible.
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FACIAL BONES
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These glands are in the cheeks over the mandible, anterior to and below the ear. Largest of the salivary glands but are not normally paalpable.
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PAROTID GLANDS
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Glands are beneath the mandible at the angle of the jaw.
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SUBMANDIBULAR GLANDS
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Glands lie in the floor of the mouth.
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SUBLINGUAL GLANDS
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Artery lies superior to the temporalis muscle, and its pulsation is palpable anterior to the ear.
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TEMPORAL ARTERY
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Delimited by the base of the skull and inferior border of the mandible above, and by the manubrium sterni, clavicle, first rib, and the first thoracic vertebra below.
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NECK
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What are the 2 major neck muscles?
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STERNOMASTOID
TRAPEZIUS |
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Lies in front, between the sternomastoid and the midline of the body, with its base up along the lower border of the mandible and its apex down at the suprasternal notch.
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ANTERIOR TRIANGLE
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Behind the sternomastoid muscle, with the trapezius muscle on the other side and with its base along the clavicle below.
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POSTERIOR TRIANGLE
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Important endocrine gland with a rich blood supply, it straddles the trachea in the middle of the neck. Highly vascular that synthesizes and secretes thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3).
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THYROID GLAND
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Just above the thyroid isthmus, AKA upper tracheal ring.
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CRICOID CARTILAGE
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Prominent "adams apple" in males, also has a small palpable notch in its upper edge.
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THYROID CARTILAGE
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This is the highest, can be palpated in the neck at the level of the floor of the mouth.
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HYOID BONE
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What carcinogen is implicated with SCC of scrotum?
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tar, soot, oil (chimney sweeper)
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What is the medical term for the symptom of difficulty in swallowing?
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DYSPHAGIA
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Term that denotes a round symmetric skull that is appropriately related to body size.
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NORMOCEPHALIC
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Enlargement of the lymph nodes (> 1cm) from infection, allergy, or neoplasm, this is an abnormal finding.
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LYMPHADENOPATHY
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Soft, pulsatile, whooshing, blowing sound heard best with the bell of the stethoscope, this is an abnormal finidng.
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BRUIT
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Measure this on an infant for each visit up to age 2 years.
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HEAD SIZE
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Edematous swelling and ecchymosis of the presenting part of the head caused by birth trauma, feels soft and may extend across suture lines. It will gradually resolve during first few days of life.
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CAPUT SUCCEDANEUM
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Subperiosteal hemorrhage, which is a result of birthing tramua, soft, fluctuant, and well defind over one cranial bone because the periosteum hold the bleedind in placce. Usually it is reabsorbed during first few weeks of life.
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CEPHALHEMATOMA
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Two things to note on infants during examination.
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HEAD POSTURE AND HEAD CONTROL
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An infants neck is turned to one side when supine and the extension of the same arm and leg, flexion of opposite arm and leg.
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TONIC NECK REFLEX
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Check this for symmetry, appreance, and presence of swelling. Note symmetry of wrinkling when the infant cries or smiles.
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FACIAL FEATURES
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On the aging adult, these are benign and include head nodding, and tongue protrusion.
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SENILE TREMORS
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