NUFT 204 - Health Assessment and Physical Examination (CH30) (Latest 2023 - 2024) Actual Questions and Answers 100% Correct

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1. adventitious sounds Answer: extra breath sounds that are not normally heard, such ascrackles, rhonchi, wheezes, and pleural friction rubs. 2. Alopecia Answer: hair loss 3. Aphasia Answer: imp... airment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing under-standing). 4. Apical Impulse (PMI) Answer: pulsation created as the left ventricle rotates against thechest wall during systole 5. arcussenilis Answer: gray-white arc or circle around the limbus of the iristhat is commonwith aging 6. atrophied Answer: (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result ofdisease or injury or lack of use 7. Auscultation Answer: listening to sounds within the body 8. Borborygmus Answer: the rumbling noise caused by the movement of gasin the intestine 9. Bruit Answer: blowing, swooshing sound heard through a stethoscope when an artery ispartially occluded 10. Cerumen Answer: ear wax 11. Clubbing Answer: bulbous enlargement of distal phalanges of fingers and toes thatoccurs with chronic cyanotic heart and lung conditions 12. Conjunctivitis Answer: inflammation of the conjunctiva (pink eye) [Show More]

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