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Physical Exam Final
Physical Exam Final - Jaeger
Question | Answer |
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What are the names of the 4 structures that divide the abdomen in sections? | LLQ,RLQ, LUQ, & LLQ |
What structure is frequently palpable as firm, narrow tube in the LLQ? | sigmoid colon |
What structure is found in the RLQ? | cecum & part of the ascedning colon from a softer, wider tube. |
what is the color & consistency of gastric juice? | clear & mucoid |
what does brownish or blackish vomitus with a "coffee-grounds" apperanece suggests? | altered by gastric acid. |
coffee ground or emessis or red blood is termed? | Hematemesis |
What is Hematemesis? | duodenal or pepetic ulcer, esophageal or gastric varices, gastritis. |
What pain is felt in the RUQ from liver distention aginsts its capsule in alcoholic hepatitis? | Visceral pain |
When does visceral pain occur? | When hollow organs contract unusally forcefully, distended, or stretched,. |
What kind of pain is associated with acute appendicitis from distenetion of inflamed appendix,gradually changing to parietal pain in th eRLQ from inflamation of the adhacetn pareital peritioneum? | Visceral periumbilical |
Citrus fruits may cause what symptoms? | aggravate the pain of reflux esophagitis; lactase deficiency is possible if abdominal discomfort linked to milk ingestion |
What are the factors that aggravate or relieve the pain? | Meals, antacid, alcohol, & medication. |
Thin like pencil stool in an obstruting "apple-core" is what type structer? | sigmoid colon |
What is constipaton? | Decrease in frquency of bowel movements |
What is diarrhea? | Excessive frequency in the passage of stools that are usually unformed or watery. |
What does black tarry stool symoblizes? | Melena or red blood in the stools (aka Hematochezia). |
What condititons leave your stool looking yellwish or gray greay foul smelling stools & sometimes frothy of floating? | Steatorrhea or fatty stools seen in malabsorption |
What kind of Hepatitis can a person contract while traveling or meals of poor snitation, ingestion of contaminated water or foodstuffs? | Hepatitis A |
What kind of Hepatitis can a person contract from parenteral or mucous membrane exposure to infectious body fluids such as blood, serum, semen, & saliva, especially via sexual contact with an infected partner or use of shared needles for injection drug us | Hepatitis B |
What kind of Hepatitis can a person contract from intravenous illicit drug use of blood transfusion? | Hepatitis C |
Pink-purple striae on the skin of the abdomen is an indication for what disease? | Cushing's syndrome |
Bulging flanks on the abdomen indicates what condition? | Ascites |
Suprapubic bulges of a distended bladdder or pregnant uterus on the abdomen indicates? | Hernias |
When looking for visible masses or organ what is one looking for? | lower abdominal mass of an ovarian or uterine tumor |
What organ s are you looking for that maybe enlarged that descends below the rib cage? | Liver of Spleen |