SOLUTION PRACTICE
◉ percussion. Answer: striking one object against another to
produce sound to determine location, shape, size, and density of
tissue
◉ percussion tones. Answer: flat-soft muscle
dull-medium-liver(solid organs
resonance-loud-lung (air)
Hyperresonance-very loud-emphysema (more air pockets)
tympany-loud-gastric (air bubble)
◉ auscultation. Answer: listening with the stethescope to lungs,
heart and abdomen, listen for pitch, loudness,quality and rate
◉ normal breath sounds. Answer: bronchial-heard over the trachea-
high pitched, harsh sounds
bronchiovesicular- heard over the mainstream bronchus-
moderate"blowing" sounds,
vesicular-heard over the base of the lungs-soft and low pitched