While assessing a patient's abdomen, the nurse notes a yellow-tinge to the skin. How should the nurse document this finding?
a. Striae
b. Jaundice
c. Caput medusae
d. Spider angioma
ANS: B
Yellowing of the skin is termed jaundice. A. Striae are light silver-colored or thin red lines on the skin. C. Caput medusae are bluish purple swollen vein patterns extending out from the navel. D. Spider angiomas are thin reddish purple vein lines close to the skin surface.
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