A comprehensive clinical examination is the basis for selecting further diagnostic steps:
- General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body weight, height; furthermore:
- Inspection (viewing).
- Skin, mucous membranes and sclerae (white part of the eye).
- Auscultation (listening) of the lungs [respiratory hypoxia/respiratory oxygen deficiency].
- Palpation (palpation) of the abdomen (abdomen) (tenderness?, knocking pain?, coughing pain?, defensive tension?, hernial orifices?, renal bearing knocking pain?)
- Inspection (viewing).
- Neurological examination – including testing of reflexes, motor function, sensitivity [due topossible neurological causes].
- Psychiatric examination [due topossible psychiatric causes].
Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.
