On inspection of the external eye structures of an African American patient, the nurse notices the sclerae are not white, but appear a darker shade with tiny black dots of pigmentation near the limbus. How does the nurse document this finding?
a. As an indication of a type of anemia
b. As a hordeolum or sty
c. As jaundice
d. As an expected racial variation
ANS: D
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