Head
The bony box that protects the brain and special sense organs.
What is the skull?
It's many appearances and expressions can reflect mood
What is the face?
The sternomastoid and the trapezius
What are the major muscles of the neck?
This terms refers to the exposed part of the eye that has a transparent protective covering.
What is the conjunctiva?
Use gentle pressure as you progress in a consistent and systematic way.
How do you palpate lymph nodes?
Another word for the lower jaw.
What is the Mandible?
Sometimes seen in face of patients with heart failure.
What is facial edema?
It divides the neck into the anterior and posterior triangle.
What is the sternomastoid muscle?
This terms refers to the corner of the eye, the angle where he lids meet.
What is the lateral canthus?
A disease that cause swollen parotid glands.
What are the mumps?
It may also be enlarged in AIDS.
The meshed joints between the cranial bones.
What are the sutures?
Involuntary movements of the faces.
What are facial tics?
This is an important endocrine gland.
What is the thyroid gland?
It refers to the elleptical open space between the eyelids.
What is a palpebral fissure.
The number of groups of lymph nodes on one side of the neck.
What is 10?
The frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal.
What are the cranial bones?
By comparing the eyebrows, palpebral fissures, nasolabial folds, and sides of the mouth.
How do you check for facial symmetry?
It can cause a visual pulsation below the jaw.
What is the carotid artery?
This term refers to the constant irrigation to keep the eye moist and lubricated.
What is the lacirmal apparatus?
It is checked by having the patient hunch the shoulders and elbows forward
What is the supraclavicular lymph node?
It crowns the head and runs from ear to ear.
What is the coronal suture?
The appearance of protruding eyes.
What is exophthalmos?
The cranial nerve tested by trying to resist the person's movement when they shrug their shoulders?
What is the cranial nerve XI?
This muscles give the eye both straight and rotary movement.
What are the extra-ocular muscles?
A terms refering to lymph enlargement, from infection, allergy or neoplasm
What is lymphadenopathy?