The Different Types of Lung Disease

If the nails are thickened, widened, and flattened, we call this clubbing. I like to look for a vertical scar down the middle of a patient's chest that shows where his or her chest was cracked for a cardiac bypass. The abdominal exam is next. And here we have something called caput medusae, which refers to engorged umbilical veins in the abdomen,. It's a sign of increased pressure in the liver of aculature - often seen in cirrhosis.