I'm autHENTic
This condition is associated with swimming and causes ear pain - especially with pressing the tragus
What is Otitis externa?
The lacrimal ducts drain into this structure.
What is the inferior turbinate?
What is the difference between mood and affect?
What is MOOD is sustained emotion that colors one's perception of the world, and AFFECT is the moment-to-moment expression of feelings and emotion?
Mood = climate, Affect = weather right now
This is the "D" in the ABCDEs of skin lesions?
What is diameter?
(What size specifically is concerning?)
This is the breath sound with low-pitch, and snoring-like quality.
What are rhonchi?
These structures in the inner ear are responsible for balance
What are the vestibule and semicircular canal?
This is a nodule of the eye that is acute, bacterial and painful.
What is a hordeolum?
This is the level of consciousness for..."Only vigorous stimuli arouses patient, and when left undisturbed will immediate lapse into unresponsive state”
What is Stuperous?
Lethargic - Severe drowsiness, but aroused by moderate stimuli, then drifts back to sleep
Obtunded - lessened interest in environment, slowed responses to stimulation, and tends to sleep more than normal
Comatose - Unarousable unresponsiveness
This is a skin lesion that is completely flat and less than a centimeter.
What is a macule?
This is the name of the chest wall deformity with a "funnel chest"
What is pectus excavatum?
Headaches, purulent nasal drainage and tenderness over the eyebrows indicates this condition.
What is Sinusitis (frontal)?
Palsy of this cranial nerve leads to eyelid drooping (aka Ptosis).
What is cranial nerve III?
What BMI Class is a patient with a BMI of 31.2kg/m2?
This is a benign, round lesion less than one centimeter that contains clear, serous fluid.
What is a vesicle?
When percussing over a lobe with a pneumonia consolidation, this is how tactile fremitus will change.
What is IT WILL INCREASE?
A Weber test lateralizing to the left ear followed by a positive Rinne test in the left ear indicates this condition
What is sensorineural hearing loss in the RIGHT ear?
Pupillary constriction when a patient looks at the object placed near the eye and dilation when they look into the distance is positive for this test.
What is accommodation?
This is the difference between white coat hypertension and masked hypertension.
What is white coat HTN is BP > 140/90 in medical settings, and mean awake ABPM < 135/85
and
masked HTN is office BP < 140/90 but elevated daytime BP > 135/85 on home or ABPM
This is the name of the distribution that follows a spinal nerve dermatome
What is dermatomal?
This is the most likely diagnosis for the following patient:
Inspection: resp distress, retractions, decreased i:e
Palpation: decreased fremitus throughout all lung fields
Percussion: (hyper)resonant
Auscultation: Breath sounds obscured by musical wheeze, Fine crackles
What is asthma?
Tonsils that extend to the level of the tonsillar pillars are categorized as this size
What are grade 2 tonsils?
This presents with severe sudden unilateral eye pain and redness, corneal cloudiness and a bulging iris.
What is Closed Angle Glaucoma?
This is the reason to palpate the blood pressure before auscultating blood pressure
What is to identify an auscultatory gap?
This secondary skin change is made of small, purpuric lesions up to 2mm across that do not blanch.
What are petechiae?
These are the two muscles that are primarily in charge of INSPIRATION
What is the diaphragm and the external intercostals?