NURS 247 HEENT Exam Prep Test| Questions
and Correct Answers| Latest 2025
Dysgeusia - ✔✔Inability to taste
Ectropion - ✔✔the lower lid is loose and rolling out
Entropion - ✔✔the lower lid rolls inward
Epistaxis - ✔✔Nosebleed
Exophthalmos - ✔✔Bulging eyes; pressure builds up
External otitis - ✔✔the condition that causes inflammation of the external ear canal,
which is the tube between the outer ear and eardrum..."swimmer's ear"
Gingivitis - ✔✔Gum inflammation
Glaucoma - ✔✔group of eye diseases causing vision loss and blindness by damaging a
nerve in the back of your eye called the optic nerve
Lacrimation - ✔✔flow of tears
Lymphadenopathy - ✔✔swelling of lymph nodes
, Malocclusion - ✔✔misaligned teeth
Myopia - ✔✔nearsightedness
Nuchal rigidity - ✔✔Resistance of the extensor muscles of the neck to being bent
forwards (meningitis)
Nystagmus - ✔✔vision condition in which the eyes make repetitive, uncontrolled
movements
Otalgia - ✔✔ear pain
Otitis media - ✔✔an infection of the middle ear that causes inflammation (redness
and swelling) and a build-up of fluid behind the eardrum...ear infection
Otorrhea - ✔✔ear drainage
Otosclerosis - ✔✔happens when irregular bone remodeling/growth occurs in your
middle ear...causing hearing loss
Palpebral fissures - ✔✔opening between eyelids... how wide your eyes open
Periorbital edema - ✔✔swelling around eye
Pharyngitis - ✔✔throat inflammation
and Correct Answers| Latest 2025
Dysgeusia - ✔✔Inability to taste
Ectropion - ✔✔the lower lid is loose and rolling out
Entropion - ✔✔the lower lid rolls inward
Epistaxis - ✔✔Nosebleed
Exophthalmos - ✔✔Bulging eyes; pressure builds up
External otitis - ✔✔the condition that causes inflammation of the external ear canal,
which is the tube between the outer ear and eardrum..."swimmer's ear"
Gingivitis - ✔✔Gum inflammation
Glaucoma - ✔✔group of eye diseases causing vision loss and blindness by damaging a
nerve in the back of your eye called the optic nerve
Lacrimation - ✔✔flow of tears
Lymphadenopathy - ✔✔swelling of lymph nodes
, Malocclusion - ✔✔misaligned teeth
Myopia - ✔✔nearsightedness
Nuchal rigidity - ✔✔Resistance of the extensor muscles of the neck to being bent
forwards (meningitis)
Nystagmus - ✔✔vision condition in which the eyes make repetitive, uncontrolled
movements
Otalgia - ✔✔ear pain
Otitis media - ✔✔an infection of the middle ear that causes inflammation (redness
and swelling) and a build-up of fluid behind the eardrum...ear infection
Otorrhea - ✔✔ear drainage
Otosclerosis - ✔✔happens when irregular bone remodeling/growth occurs in your
middle ear...causing hearing loss
Palpebral fissures - ✔✔opening between eyelids... how wide your eyes open
Periorbital edema - ✔✔swelling around eye
Pharyngitis - ✔✔throat inflammation
