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Abdominal Examination Practice Questions and Answers 100% Pass What does a physical exam of the abdomen consist of? - ANSWER-1) Inspection 2) Auscultation 3) Percussion 4) Palpation This structure is soft an difficult to feel through the abdominal wall - ANSWER-The liver This structure rests...

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Abdominal Examination Practice

Questions and Answers 100% Pass


What does a physical exam of the abdomen consist of? - ANSWER✔✔-1) Inspection


2) Auscultation


3) Percussion


4) Palpation


This structure is soft an difficult to feel through the abdominal wall - ANSWER✔✔-The liver


This structure rests on the inferior surface of the liver and more deeply lying duodenum - ANSWER✔✔-

The gallbladder


This structure may be felt in a thin person with abdominal muscles relaxed - ANSWER✔✔-The right

kidney


This structure often times has a visible pulsation in the upper abdomen - ANSWER✔✔-The abdominal

aorta


What structures are in the RUQ? - ANSWER✔✔-1) Liver


2) Gall Bladder


3) Pylorus


4) Duodenum



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5) Head of Pancreas


6) Right adrenal gland


7) Superior Aspect of Right Kidney


8) Hepatic Flexure of ascending colon


9) Portions of ascending and transverse colon


Where is the Spleen? - ANSWER✔✔-- The "spleen" is lateral to and behind the "stomach" just above the

"left kidney" in the L MAL


What ribs protect most of the spleen? - ANSWER✔✔-Ribs 9-10-11. The tip of the spleen may be palpable

below the left costal margin in a small percentage of adults


Is the pancreas palpable in healthy adults? - ANSWER✔✔-No


What are the organs of LUQ? - ANSWER✔✔-1) Left lobe of the liver


2) Spleen


3) Stomach, body of pancreas


4) Left arena gland and upper aspect of left kidney


5) Splenic flexure of colon


6) Portion of transverse and descending colon


What is palpable in the LLQ? - ANSWER✔✔-- Can often feel the firm narrow tubular sigmoid colon




- Portions of the transverse and descending colon

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- In the lower mid line are the bladder, the sacral promontory the bony anterior edge of the S1 vertebra,

and in women the uterus and ovaries


What are the organs of the LLQ - ANSWER✔✔-1) Lower lobe of left kidney


2) Sigmoid colon


3) portion of descending colon


4) Left Ureter (bladder if distended)


5) Left overt and tube (uterus if enlarged)


Where are the bowel loops and the appendix at the tail of the cecum near the junction of the small and

large intestines? - ANSWER✔✔-RLQ


What are the organs of the RLQ? - ANSWER✔✔-1) Lower pole of right kidney


2) Cecum and appendix


3) Portion of ascending colon


4) Right ovary and tube (uterus if enlarged)


5) Right ureter (bladder if distended)


Where might a distended bladder be palpable? - ANSWER✔✔-Above the symphysis pubis


How much urine is accommodated before smooth muscle and detrusor muscle are stimulated to

contract? - ANSWER✔✔-about 300 ml


Are the kidneys easy to palpate? - ANSWER✔✔-no


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