The nurse reads on a client's chart that the client has exophthalmos. What assessment finding is consistent with this diagnosis?
a. Bulging eyes
b. Drooping eyelids
c. Sunken-in eyes
d. Yellow sclera
ANS: A
Exophthalmos is bulging eyes. Drooping eyelids is ptosis. Sunken-in eyes is enophthalmos. Yellow sclera indicates jaundice.
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