Abdominal exam

abdominal examination,

the physical assessment of a patient's abdomen by visual inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation. Visual inspection of the normally oval shape of the abdominal surface while the patient is supine may reveal abnormal surface features indicating the effects of disease, surgery, or injury. Subsurface tumors, fluid accumulation, or hypertrophy of the liver or spleen may be observed as an abnormal surface feature. Auscultation may reveal vascular sounds that provide information about arterial disorders such as aortic aneurysms and bowel sounds that indicate intestinal function. In the pregnant patient, auscultation can detect fetal heartbeat and blood circulation in the placenta. Percussion helps detect the condition of internal organs. Palpation is used to detect areas of tenderness or rigidity, muscle tone and skin condition, and shapes and sizes of subsurface organs or masses.

abdominal examination

Clinical medicine A hands-on evaluation of the abdominal cavity to identify abnormalities, if any, based on any change in size, shape, consistency, or sound on percussion of the organs found therein. See Abdomen.

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Routine abdominal exam or an ultrasound exam, performed for some other ailment may help detect cysts in the ovary.

Ovarian Cysts Symptoms That Cannot Be Neglected by Linda D. Allen / Health care industry community

A standardized abdominal exam was performed on all patients that included a single-digit intravaginal palpation of the levator ani and piriformis muscles, and either a Kegel contraction to identify the levators or an external hip rotation to identify the piriformis.

Muscle tenderness seen in pelvic pain patients by Wendling, Patrice / Clinical Psychiatry News

Her abdominal exam was remarkable for tenderness and mild rebound to the RLQ.

Acute cecal diverticulitis mimicking appendicitis in a 16-year-old ... by Foster, Robin L. / Southern Medical Journal

abdominal actinomycosis

abdominal adhesion