Sensory System Bell Ringers

White patches on the tongue after taking antibiotics?

Thrush

C/o difficulty with transmission of sight messages to the brain Dx:

Brain Tumor

What structure is impaired?

Optic nerve

Window to eye?

Cornea

Hypertropia is myopia as farsightedness is?

Farsightedness is to nearsightedness

The tympanic Membrane separates what is in the ear?

Outer and Middle ear

Repeated episodes of otitis media option is likely used to treat the patient?

Myringotomy

Medical term for taste buds?

Papillae

C/o reddened, swollen, painful area on your eyelid Dx: abscess at the base of an eyelash Tx: warm, wet compress over the eyelid to promote drainage. WHat is the medical name for your Dx?

Hordeolum

Impacted ear wax in your ear you may have tis sensory disorder?

conductive hearing loss

structure made of bone and cartilage that separates the nasal cavity into 2 nostrils

nasal septum

you have difficulty drive at night what structure is impaired?

rods

If you have impacted ear in your ear, you may have this sensory disorder?

Conductive hearing loss

What structure of the eye is responsible for difficulty focusing on small objects held close?

Lens

This is the correct pathway for hearing sound waves…

Pinna, Auditory canal, Tympanic membrane, ossicles, cochlea, tomporal nerve.

C/o trouble hearing and questionable deafness. Possible Dx?

Presbycusis

Grandpa cannot pick out the clothes. Is this structure in his eye most likely impaired?

Cones

Eye has a colored portion called?

Iris

MD informed the patient that he has developed a cloudy appearance of his lens. Dx?

Cataracts

Ringing sound in the ers is most likely?

tinnitus

c/o vertigo, nausea, and tinnitus. Treatment: increase fluids and increase rest Dx?

Meniere’s diease

The optic disc is located on the floor?

retina

Middle ear structure?

incus

with aging an individual may develop a cataract on what part of the eye?

Lens

2yr olds pulls at his ears and upper respiratory infection. s/s fluid draining from his ear? Dx?

otitis media.