Regis NU650: Week 9 – Abdomen Questions And Answers 2024

straie - Correct Answer irregular areas of the skin that look like bands, stripes, or lines aka stretch marks somatic pain - Correct Answer localized pain and can be severe visceral pain - Correct Answer pain is dull and poorly localized referred pain - Correct Answer pain that originates in one place and felt in another hematemesis - Correct Answer vomiting of blood dysphagia - Correct Answer difficulty swallowing odynophagia - Correct Answer pain with swallowing jaundice - Correct Answer yellowish discoloration of the body murphy's sign - Correct Answer pain that is elicited with deep palpation of the RUQ of the abdomen during deep inspiration and expiration -indicative of gallbladder disease obturator sign - Correct Answer increase in abdominal pain with internal and external rotation of the hip when a patient is supine and hip and knee flexed at 90 degree angle. Indicative of acute appendicitis and peritonitis Iliopsoas sign - Correct Answer a test where the patient lies supine and flexes at the hip lifting the right leg. There should be no pain with resistance to lifting. If pain is present it is usually indicative of inflamed appendix or peritonitis rebound - Correct Answer increase in pain upon release of deep palpation of the lower abdomen. Indicative of appendicitis guarding - Correct Answer tightening of the abdominal muscles to guard inflamed organs