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The examiner supports the patient’s arm to be tested and abducts it to 90 degrees. A positive test is determined by the patient’s inability to smoothly control the lowering of their arm or the inability to hold the arm in 90 degrees of abduction.
What is the drop arm test?
difficult or unclear articulation of speech that is otherwise linguistically normal.
What is dysarthria?
circumscribed alterations in skin color. The skin surface is neither elevated or depressed in relation to the surrounding skin. maybe of any size or color.
BONUS: Give an example
What is a macule?
Freckle, Mongolian spot
The ability to focus selectively on a selected stimulus,
What is attention
In this test, the patient is tested at 90° elevation in the scapular plane and full internal rotation. The patient resists downward pressure exerted by the examiner at the patient's elbow or wrist.
What is the empty can test?
holding the most distal joint of a digit by its sides and moving it slightly up or down.
What is testing proprioception?
a solid, elevated lesion with no visible fluid which may be up to ½ cm. in diameter. The elevation may be accounted for by metabolic deposits,infiltrates, or hyperplasia of cellular elements
What is a papule
a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. A test of memory span, the number of items, usually words or numbers, that a person can hold onto and recall.
What is recent memory?
The examiner places one hand behind the tibia and the other grasping the patient's thigh. It is important that the examiner's thumb be on the tibial tuberosity. The tibia is pulled forward to assess the amount of anterior motion of the tibia in comparison to the femur.
What is Lachman's test
a vascular lesion characterized by anomalous dilatation of end vasculature found just beneath the skin surface.
what is a Spider angioma?
An elevated area of skin 2 cm. or more in diameter. It may be formed by a coalescence of papules or nodules. The surface area is greater than its height. It is a plate-like lesion.
What is a plaque?
the ability to recall events from the distant past.
What is remote memory?
The examiner squeezes the calf muscles, specifically the gastrocnemius - soleus complex, with his hand. Squeezing the calf should cause contraction of the Achilles tendon, resulting in plantar flexion. If the Achilles tendon is completely ruptured, there will not be any apparent plantar flexion.
What is Thompson Test?
can develop anywhere on the body but is most often found on exposed areas exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation like the face, lips, ears, scalp, shoulders, neck, back of the hands and forearms.
What is squamous cell carcinoma?
A form of papules, but are larger and deeper. They may be located in the dermis or subcutaneous tissue, or in the epidermis
BONUS
Name a type
What is a nodule?
xanthoma
awareness of one's environment, with reference to place, time, situaltion, and people.
What is orientation?
the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
What is health litercy?
circumscribed epidermal elevations in the skin containing clear fluid and less than ½ cm. in diameter.
What is a vesicle?
A localized collection of pus in a cavity formed by disintegration or necrosis of tissue.
What is an abcess?