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Health Assessment
Head and Neck
14
Nursing
Undergraduate 2
11/14/2009

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Term
What are the adjacent cranial bones that unite at meshed immovable joints called?
Definition
Sutures
Term
What two things do you assess during a neck and head exam?
Definition
Structure and function
Term
These filter and begin the process of fighting bacteria, viruses, and forign tissue. It also returns clean fluid to the vascular system.
Definition
Lymphatics
Term
What is the unintended function of lymphatics?
Definition
provide a highway for the spread of malignancy.
Term
Discrete, large, irregular, non-moble, non-tender nodes mean what?
Definition
cancer
Term
Matted, tender, mobile, regular, and smooth are knows as what kind of nodes?
Definition
Infection
Term
What nerve is the facial nerve
Definition
The 7th nerve
Term
How do you check the facial nerves?
Definition
You have the pateint puff out cheeks, smile, close eyes.
Term
inflamaiton of the temperal artery is knows as what?
Definition
Temporalarteritis
Term
What number nerve is the trigemianl nerve?
Definition
the 5th nerve
Term
What is the function of the trigeminal nerve?
Definition
sensory to the face, and jaw clench
Term
How do you test the trigeminal nerve?
Definition
Take a cotton ball, have the pateint close thier eyes, and have them point to where you are tuching them with the cotton ball.
Term
What is enlarged lymph glads known as?
Definition
Lymphadenopathy
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