MEDICAL EXAMINATION

Inspection , seeing the body
- visible qualities of sickness
  - change in color
  - change in appearance and magnitude
Auscultation , listening to the body and its sounds
Palpation , feeling the body
- Quantity
  - Swellings
  - Enlargements
- Qualities
  - hot , cold
  - rough , smooth
  - hard , soft
Percussion , tapping the body
Combining the logic
- based on observations and findings
  - Particular disease
  - Particular syndrome