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What disease can cause loss of smell? |
Parkinsons |
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What causes an abnormality in peripheral vision? |
Homonymous Hemianopsia |
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A difference of greater than 0.4 mm in pupil diameters? |
Anisocoria |
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Involuntary jerking movement of the eyes? |
Nystagmus |
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Drooping of the upper eyelids? |
Ptosis |
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What nerve is responsible for blinking? |
5 |
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The inability to know what something is by feeling it? |
Asterognosis |
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The inability to recognize a number being drawn on you? |
Graphesthesia |
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If you touch both sides of someone's body but they only identify one? |
Extinction |
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Loss of voice? |
Aphonia |
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Defect in the muscular control of speech? |
Dysarthria |
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Slow talking with impaired writing, naming, and repeating? |
Broca's Aphasia |
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Inability to understand, repeat, write, name, or talk? |
Wernicke's Aphasia |
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What is the top score that someone could get on the Glascow scale and still be in a coma? |
8 |
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Would someone with a 4 on the Glascow scale be in a coma? |
yes |
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Tapping lightly over the median nerve to test for carpal tunnel? |
Tinnels Test |
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A test which checks for sciatica? |
Straight-Leg Test |
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What does unequal leg length signify? |
Scoliosis |
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Flexing the wrists inward and pushing them together for a minute? |
Phalen's Test |
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When neck flexion causes the hip and knee to move? |
Brudinski's Sign |
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When people have trouble straightening their knee while the hip is flexed? |
Kernig's Sign |
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A test used for a small knee effusion? |
Bulge Test |
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Pushing the patella against the femur to test for effusion? |
Ballotement |
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Rotating Knee to check for meniscus tear? |
McMurray's Sign |
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Pushing a patients knee inwards and pulling the ankle outwards? |
Valgus Test |
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Pushing the knee out and the ankle in? |
Varus Test |
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The anterior drawer sign would signify a tear in what? |
ACL |
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What is a sideways drawer test called? |
Lachman Test |
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A positive romberg test would signify what? |
Cerebral Ataxia |
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Widespread musculoskeletal pain all over the body? |
Fibromyalgia |
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Chronic inflammation of snyovial membranes of hands and feet causing stiffness in the morning? |
Rheumatoid Arthritis |
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Loss of cartilage within the joints? |
Osteoarthritis |
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Symmetric pain of the hips and shoulders accompanied by malaise and depression? |
Polymyalgia Rheumatic |
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Tenderness over the top of the femur near the hip? |
Trochanteric Bursitis |
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Extreme joint pain with sudden onset could be caused by what? |
Septic Arthritis |
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A state of consciousness in which you may move and speak without being aware? |
Fugue State |
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Hard nodules on both sides of the distal finger joints? |
Heberden's Nodes |
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What kind of arthritis often involves the DIP Joints? |
Psoriatic |
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Low back pain that radiates down the leg? |
Sciatica |
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Neuromuscular and urogenital symptoms resulting from multiple compressions? |
Cauda Equina |
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Damage to a facial nerve which causes paralysis of weakness? |
Bell's Palsy |
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The normal inward curvature of the lumbar and cervical spine? |
Lordosis |
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The outward rounding of the thoracic area of the spine? |
Kyphosis |
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Similar to tics, but involving large portions of the body? |
Dystonias |
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Slow and twisting movements of the hands caused by cerebral palsy? |
Athetosis |
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Brief, rapid movements that seldom repeat themselves? |
Chorea |
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Rhythmic movements of the face due to drugs or elderliness? |
Face Dyskensias |
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What would someone have if they're having the worst headache of their life? |
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage |
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3 out of 5 POUND markers would signify what? |
Migraine |
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Progressive lower extremity weakness could be caused by what? |
Guillan Barre Syndrome |
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What test occurs when you are asked to touch your opposite shoulder blade? |
Apley Scratch Test |
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Pressing on the scapula and raising the arm is what test? |
Neer's Impingement |
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Raising the elbow while performing internal rotation of the arm? |
Hawkin's Impingement |
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The empty can test would test for an injury in what muscle? |
Supraspinatus |
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What is the term for lateral epicondylitis? |
Tennis Elbow |
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What is the term for medial epicondylitis? |
Pitcher's Elbow |
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Rotating your hands so your thumbs go internally? |
Pronation |
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Rotating your hands so your palm goes up? |
Supination |
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Nodules that occur in the Proximal finger joints? |
Bouchard's Nodules |
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Heverden's and Bouchard's nodules are signs of what? |
Degenerative Joint Disease? |
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A fracture at the end of the radius? |
Colle's Fracture |
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Tenderness over the anatomical snuffbox could signify what? |
Scaphoid Fracture |
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Accumulation of sodium urate crystals? |
Gout |
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Frozen shoulder? |
Adhesive Capsulitis |
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Nodule causing Contracture of the hand? |
Dupuytrea's Contracture |
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Swelling, ulceration, and discharge at a joint? |
Tophaceous Gout |
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Painless nodule that causes a snapping noise? |
Trigger Finger |
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Cysts along the tendon Sheaths? |
Ganglion |
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Pain that occurs when straightening the fingers? |
Tenosynovitis |
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Infection caused by a finger tip puncture? |
Felon |
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When the big toe starts facing laterally and the ball of the foot grows medially? |
Hallux Valgus |
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Pain on the bottom of the foot could be caused by what? |
Morton's Neuroma |
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What is a corn that occurs between the toes called? |
Soft Corn |
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What material should people with diabetic neuropathy wear? |
Nylon |
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Stiffness after inactivity? |
Gelling |
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A T-Score less than -2.5 would signify what? |
Osteoporosis |
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A T-score between 2.5 and 1.5 would signify what? |
Osteopenia |
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What hormones increase bone density? |
Anabolic Agents |
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Palpable bogginess or doughiness of the synovial Membrane? |
Synovitis |
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When you must speak loudly to get a response? |
Lethargic |
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When you must shake a patient to get a response? |
Obtunded |
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When the patient is only a rousable by painful stimuli? |
Stuporous |
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Mood changing very erratically? |
Labile |
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Words or phrases that are substituted for not being able to think of a word? |
Circumlocutions |
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When words are malformed, wrong, or invented? |
Parphasias |
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Speech characterized by indirection due to excess details? |
CIrcumstantiality |
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Speech in which topics shift with relation between topics? |
Derailment |
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Accelerated change of topics in a very fast but coherent matter? |
Flight of Ideas |
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Invented or distorted words? |
Neologisms |
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Fabrication of facts to hide memory impairment? |
Confabulation |
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Persistent repetition of words or ideas? |
Perseverations |
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Repetition of the words or phrases of others? |
Echolalia |
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Choosing words on basis of sound rather than meaning? |
Clanging |
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Believing a comet passing by means you should buy a car? |
Delusion of Reference |
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Believing you have a disease that you don't have? |
Somatic Delusion |
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A band of skin innervated by the sensory root of a single spinal nerve? |
Dermatome |
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Patient stands with the arms forward to see if they go down? |
Pronator Drift |
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What system of the brain controls balance and coordination? |
Vestibular |
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What system of the brain is responsible for rhythmic movement and steady posture? |
Cerebellar |
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Being able to tell which direction a body part is moving? |
Proprioreception |
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What is the normal reflex graded as? |
2+ |
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What would a brisk reflex that would signify a problem be graded as? |
4+ |
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A hyperactive response usually at the ankle? |
Clonus |
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Motor disturbances marked by a random change of posture? |
Aterixis |
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Stiffness of the hamstrings? |
Kernig's Sign |
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What is the best guide for noting chest abnormalities? |
Sternal Angle |
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What should you count to make a vertical location? |
Ribs |
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What is the lung divided in half by? |
Oblique Fissure |
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What is the right lung divided by? |
Minor Fissure |
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Serous Membranes that cover the outer surface of each lung? |
Pleurae |
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Where does lung pain come from? |
Adjacent Pleura |
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Coughing up blood from the lungs? |
Hemoptysis |
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What is the order for normal examination? |
Inspection Palpation Percussion Auscultation |
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Where should you place thumbs for chest expansion? |
10th Rib |
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SOft and low pitched sounds heard in both lungs? |
Vesicular |
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Loud and high pitch notes heard over the manubrium? |
Bronchial |
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Intermediate intensity sounds heads over the 1st and 2nd interspaces? |
Bronciovesicular |
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Inflammation of cartilage connecting ribs to sternum? |
Chostochondritis |
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What kind of sputum is clear, white, or gray? |
Mucoid |
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What kind of sputum is yellow or green? |
Perulent |
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A high pitches wheeze? |
Stridor |
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The serous membrane that covers the rib cage and upper diaphragm? |
Parietal Pleura |
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What disease causes coughing up of blood? |
TB |
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What lung sound has the inspiration heard for longer? |
Vesicular |
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A low pitched, snoring-like adventitious sound? |
Rhonchi |
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What part of the stethoscope is used to hear low pitched sounds |
Bell |
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Information that is described by the patient? |
Subjective |
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Information that is proven by assessment? |
Objective |
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What is the word used for the alcohol assessment? |
CAGE |
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The word for something that is physically wrong? |
Pothophysiology |
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Reproducing the same test results at a new day and time? |
Reliability |
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The ability to read a positive result as accurate? |
Sensitivity |
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The ability to read negative results as accurate |
Specificity |
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The odds of a disease compared to a non diseased person? |
Likelihood Ratio |
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The degree of observer agreement? |
Kappa Measurement |
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Pain related to the body tissues? |
Nociceptive/Somatic |
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Pain from direct trauma to the nervous system? |
Neuropathic |
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Pain related to how the patient reports the pain? |
Psychogenic |
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Pain that is from no obvious or identifiable cause? |
Idiopathic |
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Education before someone gets a disease?
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Primary |
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The position when a woman is getting her genitals examined? |
Lithotomy |
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What is done last during the abdominal examination? |
Palpation |
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What is the acronym used for taking an oral history? |
Situation Background Assessment Recommendation |
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Ability to distinguish between diseased and non-diseased individuals? |
Validity |
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What syndrome can cause very little height? |
Turner's |
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What is the outer layer of the pericardium? |
Parietal |
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What is the inner serous layer? |
Visceral |
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What valce is between the right atrium and ventricle? |
Tricuspid |
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What is the left atrioventricular valve called? |
Mitral |
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What set of valves prevents bloodflow back into the ventricles? |
Semilunar |
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What is the contraction phase of the cardiac cycle called? |
Systole |
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The pressure at which the ventricles fill? |
Preload |
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Stroke Volume X Heart Rate = ? |
Cardiac Output |
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The ability of cells to respond to electrical stimulation? |
Excitability |
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The ability to pass electricity from cell to cell? |
Conductivity |
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What is the pacemaker of the heart? |
Sinoatrial Node |
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What creates a slight delay before impulses go to the ventricles? |
AV Node |
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What connects the atria and ventricles electrically? |
Bundle of His |
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What fivers spread impulses throughout the ventricle walls? |
Purkinje System |
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What is the monitoring lead? |
Lead 2 |
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How much time does 1 small box cover? |
0.04 Seconds |
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WHat is caused by an open channel between the aorta and pulmonary artery? |
Patent Ductus |
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Bruits are symptomatic of what disease? |
Atherosclerosis |
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What would 120-139/80-89 be? |
Prehypertension |
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In what disease in the carotid upstroke delayed? |
Aortic Stenosis |
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A greater than normal drop in BP during inspiration? |
Paridoxical pulse |
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What is the length of a normal PR interval? |
.12-.2 |
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What is the normal QRS length? |
.06-.1 |
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What is it called when the QRS is greater than 0.1? |
Bundle Branch Block |
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What disease is signified by Atrial flutter? |
CHF |
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What ausculatory area is at the apex? |
Mitral |
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Where is the pulmonic area located? |
2nd left interspace |
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What is the area at the 2nd right interspace? |
Aortic Area |
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Where is the tricuspid area? |
Lower Left Sternal Border |
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What disease would have aggravation with exertion? |
COPD |
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Fluid accumulation in the pleural space? |
Pleural Effusion |
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PE would cause what to shift to the side? |
Trachea |
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When one or more pulmonary arteries is blocked? |
Pulmonary Embolism |
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When skin is depigmented and loses color? |
Vitiligo |
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A common fungal infection of the skin causing pigment issues? |
Tinea Versicolor |
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Collagen vascular disease causes what, which is patches over the eyelids? |
Heliotrope |
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What is the word for a common mole? |
Benign Nevus |
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Round or oval patches of hair loss? |
Alopecia Areata |
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Separating of nail from nail bed? |
Onycholysis |
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Nearsightedness? |
Myopia |
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Aging Vision? |
Presbyopia |
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Specks in the vision where a patient can't see? |
Scotomas |
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The benign midline lump on the roof of the mouth? |
Torus Palatine |
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JVD is common in what? |
CHF |
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White patches in the mouth? |
Leukoplakia |
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Angina pectoris is caused by what? |
Myocardial Ischemia |
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Prolonged myocardial ischemia? |
Myocardial Infarction |
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What position is the apex felt best in? |
Left lateral Decubitus |
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Thickened asymmetrical plaques that narrow the lumen? |
Complex Atheromas |
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Plaque Rupture? |
Thrombosis |
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Pain with walking that is relieved by sitting? |
Spinal Stenosis |
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When wrist pulses are normal but spasm of arteries causes pallor of fingers? |
Raynaud's Disease |
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What is the number for a normal brisk pulse? |
2 |
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What test is done to diagnose arterial insufficiency in the arm? |
Allen Test |
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Where is cancer most often found in the breast? |
Upper Outer Quadrant |
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Inappropriate discharge of milk containing fluid? |
Galactorrhea |
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Lesions in young women which are smooth, rubbery, and round? |
Fibroadenoma |
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What provides a 5 year and lifetime risk for breast cancer? |
Gail Model |
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What model involves risk for girls by looking at the family? |
Claus Model |
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A benign but painful condition of dilated ducts with inflammation? |
Mammary Duct Ectasia |
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A sweat gland infection? |
Hidradeneitis |
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Deeply pigmented and velvety axillary skin? |
Acanthosis Nigricans |
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Milky discharge unrelated to pregnancy or lactation? |
Nonpuerperal Galactorrhea |
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Spontaneous bloody discharge from a duct can be from what? |
Paget's Disease |
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The boundary between somatic and visceral nerve supplies? |
Anorectal Juntion |
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What is the test for prostate cancer? |
PSA |
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An arrhythmic area with some hair over the sacrum? |
Polonidal Cyst |
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A tight prepuce that cannot be retracted over the glans? |
Phimosis |
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When the prepuce cannot be returned to normal position? |
Paraphimosis |
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Inflammation of the glans? |
Balanitis |
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When a hernia's contents cannot be returned to the abdominal cavity? |
Incarcerated |
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When blood supple to the entrapped contents is compromised? |
Strangulated |
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A mass in the scrotum in which fingers can palpate above the mass? |
Hydrocele |
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The most common hernia? |
Indirect Inguinal |
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What cloaks the front of the testicles and can accumulate fluid? |
Tunica Vaginalis |
