HEENT Health Assessment Exam with Questions
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What is the medical term for bulging eyes? - ✔✔Exothalmos --> associated with
hypothalamic condition.
Concern with this is the moisture of the eye.
What is the medical term for crossing of eyes? - ✔✔Strabismus
What cranial nerve controls eyebrow movement? - ✔✔Cranial nerve VII
What are we assessing for with eyebrow inspection? - ✔✔Distribution, position, alignment,
movement (facial nerve)
What are we assessing for with eyelashes? - ✔✔Distribution, direction
What are we assessing for with eyelids? - ✔✔Color, motility, position, alignment, lesions
What in particular with position? PTOSIS
What is ptosis? - ✔✔one eyelid drops lower than the other.
The concern is visual obstruction
If it hasn't been present since childhood, it can be a sign of underlying disease!
What can edema or lesions of the eye indicate? - ✔✔Edema can indicate black eye resulting
from abuse
Lesions could be cancer
, What are we assessing in the lacrimal gland? - ✔✔just observing for generally good
moisture, the tear ducts will release extra liquid
What are we assessing for with the conjunctiva? - ✔✔Conjunctivas are pink and moist
What is conjunctivitis? - ✔✔Pink eye!!
What are we assessing for with pupils? - ✔✔Size (before light; measured in mm), shape,
equality, accommodation, reaction to light
What cranial nerve controls pupils? - ✔✔Cranial nerve III
What is a consensual response of the pupils? - ✔✔Other pupil reacts the same as the other
pupil to light/ dark
What is accommodation? - ✔✔when you pull your finger into towards their nose, their eyes
should converge medially and constrict, when you pull away eyes should readjust and dilate
What does an eye doctor use to look at your eye? - ✔✔Opthalamascope
What are a couple questions we could ask before doing an ear inspection? - ✔✔Do you have
hearing impairments?
Ear surgery?
Do you wear a hearing aid?
What are we assessing for in an ear assessment? - ✔✔Size, shape, symmetry (auricles are
normally level with eachother), position, color (lesions, inflammation), integrity (piercings),
position (compare to level of lateral eye canthus; low set auricles = chromosomal
abnormalities), discharge (cerumen, drainage).
and 100% Correct Answers Already Passed
What is the medical term for bulging eyes? - ✔✔Exothalmos --> associated with
hypothalamic condition.
Concern with this is the moisture of the eye.
What is the medical term for crossing of eyes? - ✔✔Strabismus
What cranial nerve controls eyebrow movement? - ✔✔Cranial nerve VII
What are we assessing for with eyebrow inspection? - ✔✔Distribution, position, alignment,
movement (facial nerve)
What are we assessing for with eyelashes? - ✔✔Distribution, direction
What are we assessing for with eyelids? - ✔✔Color, motility, position, alignment, lesions
What in particular with position? PTOSIS
What is ptosis? - ✔✔one eyelid drops lower than the other.
The concern is visual obstruction
If it hasn't been present since childhood, it can be a sign of underlying disease!
What can edema or lesions of the eye indicate? - ✔✔Edema can indicate black eye resulting
from abuse
Lesions could be cancer
, What are we assessing in the lacrimal gland? - ✔✔just observing for generally good
moisture, the tear ducts will release extra liquid
What are we assessing for with the conjunctiva? - ✔✔Conjunctivas are pink and moist
What is conjunctivitis? - ✔✔Pink eye!!
What are we assessing for with pupils? - ✔✔Size (before light; measured in mm), shape,
equality, accommodation, reaction to light
What cranial nerve controls pupils? - ✔✔Cranial nerve III
What is a consensual response of the pupils? - ✔✔Other pupil reacts the same as the other
pupil to light/ dark
What is accommodation? - ✔✔when you pull your finger into towards their nose, their eyes
should converge medially and constrict, when you pull away eyes should readjust and dilate
What does an eye doctor use to look at your eye? - ✔✔Opthalamascope
What are a couple questions we could ask before doing an ear inspection? - ✔✔Do you have
hearing impairments?
Ear surgery?
Do you wear a hearing aid?
What are we assessing for in an ear assessment? - ✔✔Size, shape, symmetry (auricles are
normally level with eachother), position, color (lesions, inflammation), integrity (piercings),
position (compare to level of lateral eye canthus; low set auricles = chromosomal
abnormalities), discharge (cerumen, drainage).
