NSC 830 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What information belongs in the chief complaint? - Answer -Age, gender, race/ethnicity,
timing
The history of the present illness (HPI) contains what information? - Answer -
OLDCARTS, sick contacts, prior treatment and response, prior diagnostic tests and
results,
What information do you ask for in the ROS? - Answer -Questions pertinent to the
differential diagnoses
OLDCARTS? - Answer -Onset, Location, Duration, Characteristics, Aggravating
Factors, Timing, Radiation, Severity
What is the primary defense of the body? What are its 3 layers? - Answer -skin.
Epidermis, dermis, SQ tissue
What is the name for spoon nails? What causes spoon nails? - Answer -Koilonychia
Iron def anemia, hemachromatosis, heart disease, hypothyroidism
What are beau's lines on the nails associated with? - Answer -uncontrolled diabetes,
peripheral vascular disease, illnesses associated with high fever, zinc def
What is onycholysis? - Answer -Fingernails become loose and can separate from the
nail bed
What is nail pitting usually caused by? - Answer -psoriasis, connective tissue disorders,
alopecia areata
What is a palpebral fissue? - Answer -Space laterally from top conjunctiva to bottom
conjunctiva
Where is the anterior/posterior triangle located? - Answer -On opposite sides of the
sternocleidomastoid muscle
What is the vermillion border? - Answer -sharp demarcation between the lip and the
adjacent normal skin
Which turbinates are you able to see in the nose? Which sinus are you not able to see?
- Answer -only middle and inferior (can't' see superior)
Sphenoid sinus
Alveolar vs labial mucosa? - Answer -Alveolar mucosa is the closer to the teeth. Labial
mucosa is closer to the lip
What information belongs in the chief complaint? - Answer -Age, gender, race/ethnicity,
timing
The history of the present illness (HPI) contains what information? - Answer -
OLDCARTS, sick contacts, prior treatment and response, prior diagnostic tests and
results,
What information do you ask for in the ROS? - Answer -Questions pertinent to the
differential diagnoses
OLDCARTS? - Answer -Onset, Location, Duration, Characteristics, Aggravating
Factors, Timing, Radiation, Severity
What is the primary defense of the body? What are its 3 layers? - Answer -skin.
Epidermis, dermis, SQ tissue
What is the name for spoon nails? What causes spoon nails? - Answer -Koilonychia
Iron def anemia, hemachromatosis, heart disease, hypothyroidism
What are beau's lines on the nails associated with? - Answer -uncontrolled diabetes,
peripheral vascular disease, illnesses associated with high fever, zinc def
What is onycholysis? - Answer -Fingernails become loose and can separate from the
nail bed
What is nail pitting usually caused by? - Answer -psoriasis, connective tissue disorders,
alopecia areata
What is a palpebral fissue? - Answer -Space laterally from top conjunctiva to bottom
conjunctiva
Where is the anterior/posterior triangle located? - Answer -On opposite sides of the
sternocleidomastoid muscle
What is the vermillion border? - Answer -sharp demarcation between the lip and the
adjacent normal skin
Which turbinates are you able to see in the nose? Which sinus are you not able to see?
- Answer -only middle and inferior (can't' see superior)
Sphenoid sinus
Alveolar vs labial mucosa? - Answer -Alveolar mucosa is the closer to the teeth. Labial
mucosa is closer to the lip
