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• The retinal structures viewed through the ophthalmoscope are: -✓✓optic disc,
vessels, macula, background
• "Positive consensual light reflex" means... -✓✓simultaneous constriction
• The thickening and yellowing of the lens due to aging is described as: -
✓✓cataract
• Eye emergency -✓✓sudden change in vision
• Visual acuity is assessed with: -✓✓Snellen eye chart
• The cover test is used to assess for: -✓✓muscle weakness
• When using the ophthalmoscope, you would: -✓✓remove your own glasses and
approach the patient's left eye with your left eye
• The 6 eye muscles that control eye movement are innervated by cranial nerves: -
✓✓III, IV, VI
• Conjunctivitis -✓✓redness of the conjunctiva
,• normal peripheral vision would see finger at -✓✓90 degrees
• patient blind in left eye, what happens when light in right -✓✓both constrict
• interruption of red reflex happens when -✓✓there is opacity of cornea or lens
• One cause of visual impairment in aging adults is: -✓✓glaucoma
• PERRLA -✓✓pupils equal, round, reactive to light and accommodation
• cause of red reflex -✓✓light reflecting from the retina
• color of tympanic membrane -✓✓pearly gray
• sensioneural hearing loss -✓✓related to gradual nerve degeneration
• Before ear exam, palate -✓✓pinna, tragus, and mastoid process
• Ear exam of 3 year old -✓✓pull pinna down
• ear exam of adult -✓✓pull pinna up and back
• darwin tubercle -✓✓a congenital, painless nodule at the helix
,• when assessing patients ear -✓✓tilt head away from examiner
• The hearing receptors are located in the -✓✓cochlea
• The sensation of vertigo may indicate: -✓✓pathology in the semicircular canals
• common cause of conductive hearing loss -✓✓impacted cerumen
• Signs of ear infection -✓✓absent light reflex, red and bulging drum
• Reducing risk of ear infection -✓✓dont smoke in house or car
• assessing hearing in babies -✓✓watch for head turn when you call their name
• patient w head injury has clear watery drainage from ear -✓✓consider possible
basal skull fracture, refer immediately
• common site of nose bleeds -✓✓kiesselbach plexus
• Which sinuses can you assess through examination? -✓✓frontal and maxillary
• the frenulum is the -✓✓midline fold of tissue that connects the tongue to the floor
of the mouth
, • The largest salivary gland is located: -✓✓within the cheeks in front of the ear
• old woman with dry mouth -✓✓medication
• find a deviated septum, what next -✓✓document in case it needs suction
• Oral malignancies are most likely to develop: -✓✓in the mucosal "gutter" under
the tongue
• tonsils 3+ -✓✓tonsils touch the uvula
• function of nasal turbinates -✓✓warm the inhaled air
• Opening of adult's parotid gland is opposite what? -✓✓upper 2nd molar
• A nasal polyp is distinguished from the nasal turbinates by 3 things -
✓✓moveable, pale/gray, nontender
• The examiner notes small, round, white, shiny papules on the hard palate and
gums of a 2-month-old infant. What is the significance of this finding? -✓✓epstein
pearls, normal
• when assessing tongue -✓✓palpate u shaped area under tongue
• expected finding of 75 year old oral cavity -✓✓decreased ability to identify odors