UC ADU HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM (ACTUAL
2024-2025) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Inner ear - ---ANSWERS_____Bony labyrinth
• Cochlea - sensory organ for hearing
• Vestibule & Semicircular canals - sensory organs for
equilibrium/balance
Crackles - ---ANSWERS_____sound of air passing through
moisture.
▪ Fine Crackles: soft, high pitched, very brief (5-10secs),
heard at end of inspiration
• Sounds like rolling strand of hair between fingers
• Early CHF, pneumonia, fibrosis, bronchitis
▪ Coarse Crackles: louder, lower in pitch, longer (20-30secs),
heard during
inspiration at lung base or dependent portion Pulmonary
edema, pneumonia, fibrosis
absence of sound - ---ANSWERS_____no air exchange,
alveoli not opening or closing
effusion, atelectasis, consolidation
Wheeze - ---ANSWERS_____High pitched (sibilant):
musical, squeaking, predominate in expiration but
continuous
• Acute asthma, chronic emphysema
,UC ADU HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM (ACTUAL
2024-2025) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Low pitched (rhonchi - sonorous): low-pitched, musical
snoring, >E but continuous
• Thick secretion, muscular constriction, masses
Stridor - ---ANSWERS_____Upper airway obstruction:
croup, acute epiglottits, foreign body
Pleural friction rub - ---ANSWERS_____rubbing or grating
during I or E, louder in E, loudest over
lower, lateral anterior surface
▪ Inflammation of pleural surfaces, empayema
Bronchophany - ---ANSWERS_____o Say "99" upon
auscultation
o Normal: muffled/indistinct sound
o Abnormal: clear voice heard = lung consolidation (sound
travels better through
solids)
Egophany - ---ANSWERS_____o Say "E" upon auscultation
o Normal: muffled sound
o Abnormal: E turns to A = lung consolidation
,UC ADU HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM (ACTUAL
2024-2025) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Whispered Pectorioquy - ---ANSWERS_____o Whisper "1, 2,
3" upon auscultation ▪ Normal: faint, indistinct
▪ Abnormal: loud and clearly heard = lung consolidation
external nose - ---ANSWERS_____• Nares: opening at base
• Vestibule: widening of nares
• Columella: divides the 2 nares • Ala: outside wing
internal nose - ---ANSWERS_____Nasal cavity: olfactory
receptors CN I Septum: rich vascular network Kiesselbach's
Turbinates: 3 parallel to increase surface area Paranasal
sinuses: air filled pockets
o Frontal - frontal bone
o Maxillary - in maxilla (cheekbones)
o Ethmoid - between orbits
o Sphenoid - deep within sphenoid bone
lacrimal apparatus - ---ANSWERS_____provides constant
irrigation to keep the
conjunctiva and cornea moist. lacrimal gland in upper outer
cornea
secretes tears. tear drain into the puncta at the inner canthus.
then
drain into the nasolacrimal sac. empty into the inferior meatus
, UC ADU HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM (ACTUAL
2024-2025) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
inside the nose.
Extraocular muscles - ---ANSWERS_____6 muscles attach
eyeball to orbit. straight
movement-superior, inferior, lateral, and medial rectus
muscles.
rotary movement-2 slanting or oblique muscles are the
superior and swelling, watery, dryness, discharge, PH of
inferior.
stimulated by CN V1 (abducens) innervates lateral rectus
muscle:
CN IV (trochlear) innervates superior oblique:
CN III (oculomotor)
innervates the rest.
Inner layer of the eye - ---ANSWERS_____retinal structures-
optic disc, vessels, macula
Auricle or Pinna (external) - ---ANSWERS_____helix
antihelix, tragus, anti tragus,
lobule, external auditory meatus.