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One of the most common symptoms in clinical practice.
What is a headache?
What is upside-down and reversed left to right?
The medical term for ear wax.
What is cerumen?
This clinical finding of the nose is suggestive of cocaine use.
True or False: In darker skinned people, partly brown gingiva can be a normal finding.
True
Asymmetrical facial expressions or facial droop is a sign of this.
What is a stroke?
The name of the opening between the eyelids.
What is the palpebral fissure?
This type of conduction bypasses the external and middle ear and is often used to test hearing.
What is bone conduction?
These three bony structures of the nose are covered with highly vascular tissue and aid in warming and humidifying air as it enters the nose.
What are the turbinates/concha (superior/nasal, middle, and inferior)?
The protective layering of our teeth.
What is enamel?
This region of the head is located at the base of the skull and shares its name with the underlying bone beneath it.
What is the occipital region?
The name of the eye chart used to test visual acuity.
What is the Snellen eye chart?
The three ossicles of the middle ear.
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
This clinical finding is suggestive of allergies.
What are nasal mucosal polyps?
This can be indicated by white patches on the tongue.
What is candida infection?
The extension of this joint allows patients to achieve the "sniffing position."
What is the atlanto occipital joint?
What is the iris?
The first phase in the hearing pathway.
What is air conduction?
The structure most commonly injured during nasal intubation.
What is the inferior turbinate/concha?
Two serious complications of untreated dental carries.
What are bacteremia and endocarditis?
This gland is located below the tongue and deep to the mandible.
What is the submandibular gland?
What is papilledema?
This inhalation agent should be avoided in a stapendectomy (the replacement of the stapes bone with a prosthesis).
What is nitrous oxide?
Two contraindications for inserting a nasal airway.
What are anticoagulation, basilar skull fracture, history of nosebleed requiring medical treatment, and nasal or nasopharyngeal deformity?
This tissue make up the bulk of our teeth.
What is dentin?