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• framework of the head

  skull
• houses and protects the brain and major sensory organs. It consists of eight bones

  CRANIUM
• In the adult client, the cranial bones are joined together by immovable sutures

  sagittal, coronal, squamosal, and lambdoid suture
• consists of fourteen bones.

  Face
• term used to describe normal condition of the head

  Normocephalic
• Abnormal increase in head size in young child

  HYDROCEPHALUS
• Inconsistently large head size in adolescent or adult

  ACROMEGALY
• means enlargement


  Megaly
• If patient has acromegaly, the patient’s _ secretes excessive growth hormone after the epiphyseal plates have closed

  pituitary gland
• abnormal or excessive hair growth that you can observe with female patients

  HIRSUTISM
• problem with adrenal gland which don't produce enough cortisol and aldosterone

  Addison’s Disease
• an indication that your patient has Cushing Syndrome

  MOON FACE
• patient has anedematous face (very round and very puffy).

  MOON FACE
• happens when there is an increased secretion of cortisol

  Cushing Syndrome
• symptom of your grave's disease and it can also be seen with patients who have thyroid problems

  EXOPHTHALMOS
• the temporal artery is located between


  top of the ear and the eye)
• palpate the Temporal artery using 


  index finger.
• presence of pain upon palpation of the temporal artery which is your tenderness, it is an indication of a condition known as

  ARTERITIS
• inflammation of your temporal Artery can lead

  blindness
• largest endocrine organ and it produces Thyroxine (T4) and your Thyroironine (T3)

  thyroid gland
• Located at the posterior side of the thyroid

  parathyroid gland
• clear substance composed mostly of excess tissue or fluid

  filter lymph
• Thyroid not visible


  normal findings
• Indication of Lymphadenopathy,Lymphoma, or other malignancy

  abnormal findings
• Lightly palpate at the back of the head at the base of the skull

  occipital nodes
• palpate behind the ears

  Post - auricular nodes
• palpate in front of the ears

  Pre - auricular nodes
• palpate at the angle of the jaw

  Tonsillar nodes
• palpate under the mandible


  Submandibular nodes
• palpate under the tip of the chin


  Submental nodes
• palpate the upper portion of the sternocleidomastoid muscle

  Superficial cervical nodes
• palpate in the posterior triangle behind the sternocleidomastoid muscle


  Posterior cervical nodes
• Palpate the sternocleidomastoid muscle

  Deep cervical nodes
• palpate above the clavicle

  Supraclavicular nodes
• palpate below the clavicle

  Infraclavicular nodes
• Lymph nodes normally not palpable, especially the deep and clavicular nodes.

  normal findings
• To palpate the right lobe, slide fingers to the right,gently displace trachea to right, and palpate glands as patient swallows. To palpate left lobe,slide fingers to the left, gently displace trachea toleft, and palpate gland as patient swallows

  Anterior approach
• Have the patient tilt head to right, and then gently displace trachea to right, slide fingers to right,and palpate right thyroid lobe as patient swallows(the gland moves up with the cartilage as the patient swallows).-To palpate the left lobe, repeat the same technique

  Posterior approach
• Controls your metabolism and helps regulate calcium

  thyroid gland
• have the patient hold breath and then listen over the thyroid gland with the bell portion of the stethoscope

  thyroid gland is palpable