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What are the CAGE questions?
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Have you ever felt the need to cut down on drinking?
Have you ever felt annoyed by criticism of your drinking? Have you ever felt guilty about your drinking? Have you ever taken a drink first thing in the morning for an Eye Opener to steady your nerves or get rid of hangover? |
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The terms Acutely or Chronically ill, Frail, or Fit and Robust are used to describe what?
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Apparent state of health
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Clutching of the chest, pallor, diaphoresis, labored breathing, wheezing and cough are all signs of what?
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Cardiac or respiratory distress
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Wincing, sweating, protectiveness of painful area, facial grimacing, unusual posture favoring one limb or body area are all signs of what?
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Pain
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Anxious face, fidgety movements, cold and moist palms, inexpressive or flat affect, poor eye contact, psychomotor slowing are signs of what?
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Anxiety or Depression
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When examining the skin for color and obvious lesions what are five things that are looked for specifically?
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Pallor, cyanosis, jaundice, rashes, bruises
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Excess clothing may reflect what two things?
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Cold intolerance or hypothyroidism
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Cut out holes or slippers may indicate what?
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Gout, bunions, or other painful foot conditions.
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Untied laces, or patients wearing slippers may suggest what?
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Edema
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Copper bracelets are something sometimes worn by who?
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Patients with arthritis
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"Grown Out" hair and nail polish can help you what?
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Estimate the length of an illness if the patient can not give a history.
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Chewed fingernails can be a sign of what?
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Stress
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Unkempt appearance can be a sign of what two things?
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Depression and Dementia
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When observing facial expression what is noticeable about hyperthyroidism?
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A stare
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When observing facial expression what is noticeable about Parkinsonism?
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Immobile Face
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When observing facial expression what is noticeable about depression?
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Flat or sad affect
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What four things can decreased eye contact represent?
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It can be cultural, may suggest anxiety, fear or sadness.
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If you have a breath odor of acetone what can be the cause?
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Diabetes
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When a patient has a preference for sitting up it can be a sign of what?
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Left sided heart failure
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When a patient leans forward with the arms braced it can be a sign of what?
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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If a person has fast frequent movements it can be a sign of?
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Hyperthyroidism
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If a person has slow movements or activity it can be a sign of?
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Hypothyroidism
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If a patient has Turner's syndrome they have a very ___ stature?
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Short
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If a patient has a short stature it can also be a sign of what?
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Childhood Renal Failure
Achondroplasia Hypopituitary Dwarfism |
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If you see long limbs in proportion to the trunk it can be a sign of what two things?
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Hypogonadism
Marfan's Syndrome |
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Height loss can be seen with what two things?
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Osteoporosis
Vertebral Compression Factors |
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Generalized fat is associated with what?
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Obesity
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Truncal fat, with relatively thin limbs is associated with?
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Cushing's Syndrome
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What are seven causes of weight loss?
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Malignancy
Diabetes mellitus Hyperthyroidism chronic infection depression diuresis successful dieting |
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Singing, dancing and expansive movements are associated with what?
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Manic episode
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Grooming and personal hygiene may deteriorate in what three instances?
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Depression
Schizophrenia Dementia |
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One sided neglect may result from what?
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A lesion in the opposite parietal cortex, usually the nondominate side
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A flat affect and remoteness is associated with what?
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Schizophrenia
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This is defective articulation.
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Dysarthria
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This is a disorder of language.
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Aphasia
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Hesitances and gaps, disturbed inflections, circumlocutions, and paraphasias are abnormalities that suggest what?
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Aphasia
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This is refusal to maintain minimally normal body weight, BMI above 17.5kg/m(squared). Pt is afraid of appearing fat, frequently starving but in denial, lacking insight. Pt. is often brought in by family members.
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Anorexia Nervosa
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What biologic complications are associated with anorexia nervosa?
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Neuroendocrine change (amenorrhea), Cardiovascular disorders, metabolic disorders, other (dry skin, dental caries, delayed gastric emptying, constipation, anemia, osteoporosis)
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This is repeated binge eating followed by self induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics or other medications, fasting or excessive exercise. Pt. often time has normal weight. this is characterized by overeating at least twice a week during 3 month period, large amounts of food consumed in short period (2 hours)
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Bullimia nervosa
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Pt with hypertension should increase what?
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Foods high in potassium
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Pt. with hypertension should decrease what?
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Foods high in Sodium
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Rapid deep breathing is also known as?
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Hyperpnea or Hyperventilation
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Ataxic breathing is known as?
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Biot's breathing
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For the anterior thorax, lungs, abdomen and lower extremities the pt should be in what position?
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Supine
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For the cardiovascular exam the pt should be in what position?
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Elevate the head of the bed to approximately 30 degrees.
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Pt is lying on their left side for what exam?
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Rectal examination
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Patient is sitting or supine for this exam?
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Nervous system exam
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The patient is standing for these four exams
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Peripheral vascular
Musculoskeletal Genitalia and Hernias in men Nervous System |
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What position is the female in for the genital and rectal examinations?
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Supine in the lithotomy position
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Rhythm: A beat of atrial or nodal origion comes earlier than the next expected normal beat. A pause follows, and then the rhythm resumes. Heart Sounds: S1 may differ in intensity from the S1 of normal beats, and S2 may be decreased.
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Atrial or nodal premature contractions (Supraventricular)
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Rhythm: A beat of ventricular origin comes earlier than the next expected normal beat. A pause follows, and the rhythm resumes. Heart Sounds: S1 may differ in intensity from S1 of the nromal beats and S2 may be decreased. Both sounds are likely to be split.
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Ventricular premature contraction
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Rhythm: The heart varies cyclically, usually speeding up with inspiration and slowing down with expiration. Heart Sounds: Normal, although S1 may vary with the heart rate.
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Sinus Arrhythmia
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Rhythm: The ventricular rhythm is totally irregular, although short runs of the irregular ventricular rhythm may seem regular. Heart Sounds: S1 varies with intensity.
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Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter with varying AV block
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Dry skin, aging, pregnancy, uremia, jaundice, lymphomas, leukemia, drug reactions and lice are all causes of what?
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Generalized itching
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What is the HARMM melanoma risk model?
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History of previous melanoma
Age over 50 Regular dermatoligist absent Mole changing Male gender |
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This results from decreased redness in anemia and decreased blood flow, as occurs in fainting or arterial insufficiency?
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Pallor
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This is caused by advanced lung disease, congenital heart disease and hemoglobinopathies?
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Central cyanosis
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This is usually peripheral, reflecting decreased blood flow.
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Cyanosis
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What is an instance when cyanosis can be central?
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Pulmonary edema
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Venous obstruction may cause what?
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peripheral cyanosis
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This suggests liver disease or excessive hemolysis of red blood cells.
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Jaundice
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Skin dryness is associated with what endocrine disorder?
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Hypothyroidism
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skin Temperature in hypothyroidism is?
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Cool
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skin Temperature in hyperthyroidism is?
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Warm/Hot
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Rough skin is associated with?
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Hypothyroidism
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Velvety skin is associated with?
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Hyperthyroidism
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Skin has decreased mobility in?
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Edema and scleroderma
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Skin has decreased turgor in?
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Dehydration
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Violaceous eruption over the eyelids in the collagen vascular disease dermatomyositis
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Heliotrope
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Reddish oval like ringworm lesions?
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Pityriasis rosea
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Silvery scaly lesions mainly on the extensor surfaces?
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Psoriasis
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Tan, flat, scaly lesions?
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Tinea Versicolor
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Skin lesion that appears mainly on flexor surfaces?
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Atopic eczema
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Visible and palpable thickening of the epidermis and roughening of the skin with increased visibility of the normal skin furrows (often from chronic rubbing)
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Lichenification
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Open and closed comedones, occasional papules.
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Mild acne
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Comedones, papules, pustules.
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Moderate acne
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Superficial, flattened papules covered by a dry scale. Often multiple, can be round or irregular, pink, tan or grayish. Appear on sun exposed skin of older, fair skinned people.
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Actinic keratosis
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Common, benign, yellowish to brown raised lesions that feel slightly greasy and velvety or warty and have a "stuck on" appearance.
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Seborrheic keratosis
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Most common in fair skinned adults forty years or older and usually appears on the face.
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Basal cell carcinoma
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Usually appears on sun exposed skin of fair skinned adults older than sixty years. May develop in an actinic keratosis.
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Squamous cell carcinoma
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This is benign and known as the common mole.
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Nevus
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A superficial infection of the proximal and lateral nail folds adjacent to the nail plate.
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Paronychia
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Clinically a bulbous swelling of the soft tissue at the nail base with a loss of the normal angle between the nail and the proximal nail fold.
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Clubbing of the fingers
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A painless separation of the whitened opaque nail plate from the pinker translucent nail bed.
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Onycholysis
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Nail plate turns white with a ground glass appearance, a distal band of reddish brown and obliteration of the lunula. Seen in liver disease, usually cirrhosis.
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Terry's nails
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Trauma to the nail is commonly followed by nonuniform white spots that grow slowly out with the nail, what are these called?
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White spots (Leukonychia)
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Curving transverse white bands that cross the nail parallel to the lunula. Seen in arsenic poisoning, heart failure, Hodgkin's disease, chemotherapy, carbon monoxide poisoning, and leprosy.
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Transverse white bands (Mees' lines)
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Transverse depressions of the nail plates usually bilateral, resulting from temporary disruption of proximal nail growth from systemic illness. Seen in severe illness, trauma, and cold exposure in Raynaud's syndrome.
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Transverse linear depressions (Beau's Lines)
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Punctate depression of the nail plate, seen in psoriasis.
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Pitting
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If a headache is severe and of sudden onset it could be what two things?
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage or meningitis.
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New and persisting progressively severe headaches can be a sign of what three things?
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Tumor, abscess or mass lesion
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Redness and scaling may indicate of the skin may indicate what?
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Seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis
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An enlarged skull can be a sign of what two things?
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Hydrocephalus or Paget's disease of bone
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Hirsutism occurs in some women with?
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Polycystic ovary syndrome
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If a patient has difficult with close work it can mean what for the eyes?
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Hyperopia or presbyopia
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If a patient has trouble with distance it can mean what for the eyes?
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Myopia
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Flashing lights or new vitreous floaters suggest what?
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Detachment of the vitreous from the retina
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Diplopia in adults may arise from?
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A lesion in the brainstem or cerbellum.
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A homonymous hemianopsia affects what?
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One side of the optic tract leading to either right side or left side homonymous hemianopsia
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If there was an occlusion at the optic chiasm what kind of problem could occur?
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Bilemporal hemianopsia
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An enlarged blind spot occurs in conditions affecting the optic nerve such as?
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Glaucoma, optic neuritis and papilledema
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Upstarting palpebral fissures are seen in?
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Downs syndrome
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In paralysis of the ____ the eyes are conjugate in right lateral gaze but not in left lateral gaze.
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CN VI
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Contraindications for mydriatic drops include?
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Head injury and coma
Any suspicion of narrow angle glaucoma |
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Loss of venous pulsations in pathologic conditions like head trauma, meningitis, or mass lesions may be an early sign of?
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Elevated intracranial pressure
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Discharge of mucopurulent fluid from the puncta suggests?
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An obstructed nasolacrimal duct.
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This is a triangular thickening of the bulbar conjunctiva that grows slowly across the outer surface of the cornea.
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Pterygium
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People with this type of hearing loss have particular trouble understanding speech, often complaining that others mumble, noisy environments make hearing worse. In conductive loss, noisy environments may help.
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Sensorineural hearing loss
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aminoglycosides, aspirin, NSAIDS, quinine, furosemide etc. can affect what?
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Hearing
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Tinnitus and vertigo may suggest what disease?
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Menieres disease
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Oral contraceptives, reserpine, guanethidine, and alcohol can cause?
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Nasal Stuffiness
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Pain on bending forward, maxillary toothache, may suggest what?
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acute bacterial sinusitis
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Excessive use of decongestants can cause?
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Rhinitis medicomentosa
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Fever, pharyngeal exudates, and anterior lymphadenopathy, especially in the absence of cough suggests?
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Streptococcal pharyngitis
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Smoking, allergy, voice abuse, hypothyroidism, chronic infections such as tuberculosis and tumors can cause what?
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Chronic hoarseness
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Nontender nodular sweelings covered by normal skin deep in the ear canals suggest what?
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Exostoses, nonmalignant overgrowths which may obscure the drum.
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Movement of the auricle and tragus is painful in what condition?
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Acute otitis externa
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Tenderness of the nasal tip or alae suggests local infection such as a?
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Furuncle
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In viral rhinitis the mucosa is?
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Reddened and swollen.
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In allergic rhinitis the mucosa is ?
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pale, bluish or red
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These are pale, semitranslucent masses that usually come from the middle meatus.
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Polyps
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This is a benign midline lump on the tongue?
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Torus palatinus
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Asymmetric protrusion of the tongue suggests a lesion of what CN?
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CN XII
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Enlargement of a supraclavicular node, especially on the left, suggests possible?
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Metastasis from a thoracic or an abdominal malignancy
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The thyroid is soft in?
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Grave's disease
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The thyroid is hard in?
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Hashimoto's thyroiditis
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