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A 42 year old female presents to your office for evaluation of shortness of breath. She has had a fever as high as 103 F for the last 3 days and has a cough productive of green sputum. On physical exam, you hear crackles in her lungs. A chest radiograph reveals a consolidation in the left lower lobe. You diagnose her with a lobar pneumonia.  When you perform tactile fremitus of the left lower thorax, you would expect fremitus to be:

The term claudication refers to

Contraction of the ventricles causes

A third heart sound is created by

In differentiating between an occluded artery or vein, a differentiating sign (present in venous but not arterial occlusion) is

Upon inspection of the throat, you have the patient stick out their tongue, which cranial nerve are you checking? 

During the otoscopic exam of an adult you should:

Which finding related to the head would not be documented under ROS?

All of the following tests can assess hearing except:

Which of the following is an abnormal lymph node finding concerning for malignancy?