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Chapter 17: Nose, Mouth, and Throat 

1. Name the functions of the nose.

2. Describe the size and components of the nasal cavity.

 3. List the 4 sets of paranasal sinuses, and describe their function. 

4. List the 3 pairs of salivary glands, including their location and the locations of their duct openings.

5. After tooth loss in the middle or older adult, describe the consequences of chewing with the remaining maloccluded teeth.

6. Describe the appearance of a deviated nasal septum and a perforated septum. 

7. Describe the appearance of a torus palatinus, and explain its significance.

8. Contrast the physical appearance and clinical significance of the following: leukoedema; candidiasis, leukoplakia, Fordyce granules.

9. List the 4-point grading scale for the size of tonsils.

10. Describe the appearance and clinical significance of these findings in the infant: sucking tubercle, Epstein pearls, Bednar aphthae.

11. Contrast the appearance of nasal turbinates versus nasal polyps.

12. Describe the appearance and clinical significance of these findings on the tongue: ankyloglossia, fissured tongue, geographic tongue, black hairy tongue, macroglossia.

13. In the space below, sketch a cleft palate and a bifid uvula.

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