NUR2092 Exam 2 Questions with Correct Answers
Rhonchi - Answer: low-pitched, coarse, loud snoring sound. Usually caused by secretions in
bronchial airway
Wheeze - Answer: continuous musical sound; heard in patients with asthma
Crackles - Answer: continuous popping. Patients with atelectasis or heart failure
Coarse crackles - Answer: faint crackling; pneumonia
Barrel chest - Answer: emphysema
pectus excavatum - Answer: sunken sternum
scoliosis - Answer: s-curve of spine, makes inhalation difficult
kyphosis - Answer: hunchback
normal lung sounds - Answer: clear or bronchial (adult/older child) vesicular (young adult)
bronchophony - Answer: abnormal transmission of sound from the lungs. Test- auscultate lungs,
say "99" should not be able to hear; abnormal- clearly hear '99'
Dullness - Answer: occurs over a distended bladder, adipose tissue, fluid, or a mass.
Tympany - Answer: empty, hollow areas
, NUR2092 Exam 2 Questions with Correct Answers
Thoracic expansion - Answer: examine chest movement, should be smooth and even. Note any
accessory muscle or labored breathing.
Tonsil assessment - Answer: DO NOT want them to meet in mid-line
cyanosis in Africans - Answer: gray skin around mouth eyes appear gray/bluish
Diastole - Answer: ventricles relaxing and filling with blood. 2/3 of cardiac cycle
Systole - Answer: contraction
Lub - Answer: (S1) closing of AV valves (mitral/tricuspid) during isovolumetric contraction
Dub - Answer: (S2) closing of semilunar valves
S3 - Answer: extra heart sound heard by bell of stethoscope. Can be normal in Y.A., children,
pregnancy. Abnormal in older adults could mean heart failure.
Murmur - Answer: made from abnormal patterns of blood flow. Sounds like a raspy, machine,
blowing.
First auscultation - Answer: Aortic 2nd right ICS
Second auscultation - Answer: Pulmonic 2nd left ICS
third auscultation - Answer: ERBs point 3rd left ICS
Rhonchi - Answer: low-pitched, coarse, loud snoring sound. Usually caused by secretions in
bronchial airway
Wheeze - Answer: continuous musical sound; heard in patients with asthma
Crackles - Answer: continuous popping. Patients with atelectasis or heart failure
Coarse crackles - Answer: faint crackling; pneumonia
Barrel chest - Answer: emphysema
pectus excavatum - Answer: sunken sternum
scoliosis - Answer: s-curve of spine, makes inhalation difficult
kyphosis - Answer: hunchback
normal lung sounds - Answer: clear or bronchial (adult/older child) vesicular (young adult)
bronchophony - Answer: abnormal transmission of sound from the lungs. Test- auscultate lungs,
say "99" should not be able to hear; abnormal- clearly hear '99'
Dullness - Answer: occurs over a distended bladder, adipose tissue, fluid, or a mass.
Tympany - Answer: empty, hollow areas
, NUR2092 Exam 2 Questions with Correct Answers
Thoracic expansion - Answer: examine chest movement, should be smooth and even. Note any
accessory muscle or labored breathing.
Tonsil assessment - Answer: DO NOT want them to meet in mid-line
cyanosis in Africans - Answer: gray skin around mouth eyes appear gray/bluish
Diastole - Answer: ventricles relaxing and filling with blood. 2/3 of cardiac cycle
Systole - Answer: contraction
Lub - Answer: (S1) closing of AV valves (mitral/tricuspid) during isovolumetric contraction
Dub - Answer: (S2) closing of semilunar valves
S3 - Answer: extra heart sound heard by bell of stethoscope. Can be normal in Y.A., children,
pregnancy. Abnormal in older adults could mean heart failure.
Murmur - Answer: made from abnormal patterns of blood flow. Sounds like a raspy, machine,
blowing.
First auscultation - Answer: Aortic 2nd right ICS
Second auscultation - Answer: Pulmonic 2nd left ICS
third auscultation - Answer: ERBs point 3rd left ICS
