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membrane covered "soft spots" that separate the
fontanel
neonatal skull and allow for growth during the 1st year.
nuchal rigidity resistance to flexion
presyncope feeling faint
disequilibrium shakiness or instability when walking
round, symmetric skull that is appropriately related to
normocephalic
body size
tic involuntary movement in facial muscles
lymphadenopathy enlarged lymph nodes
How can you locate the C7 has a long spinous process that is palpable when
C7 vertebra? the head is flexed
what is the other name for vertebra prominens
C7?
The border shared by the sternomastoid muscle
anterior and posterior
triangles of the neck is
formed by which muscle?
, preauricular
posterior auricular
occipital
submental
Name lymph nodes (also submandibular
know where they are) jugulodigastric
superficial cervical
deep cervical
posterior cervical
supraclavicular
If a lymph node is upstream
enlarged do you look
upstream or downstream
for the source of the
problem?
what are the 4 areas that head & neck
lymph nodes are arms
accessible to axillae
examination? inguinal region
why do older adult's facial they have decreased elasticity, decreased
bones and orbits appear subcutaneous fat, decreased moisture in skin
increased in prominence?
how do you palpate deep deep chain lymph nodes: tip the person's head toward
chain lymph nodes? the side being examined to relax the ipsilateral muscle
supraclavicular lymph supraclavicular: have patient hunch shoulders and
nodes? elbows forward
hard
characteristics of larger than 3cm
cancerous lymph nodes unilateral
fixed
if a patient has a Right -- away from the side of the pneumothorax due
pneumothorax on their left to air in the pleural space creating pressure and
lung which way would the pushing the trachea and mediastinum away from it
trachea shift?