Shape (head)
  • Mesaticephaly (normal diameters)
  • Dolichocephaly (longer anterior-posterior diameter)
  • Brachycephaly (longer transverse diameter)
  • Plagiocephaly (longer oblique diameter)

    Volume (head)
  • Microcephaly (Small head)
  • Macrocephaly (Large head. e.g. hydrocephaly)

    Movements (head)
  • Normal (anterior, lateral and posterior)
  • Rhythmic tremor (elderly individuals, parkinson's disease)
  • Bounding of the head --in Patients with aortic reg. is the Musset's sign--)

    Symmetry and Surface (head)

  • Exostosis/Endostosis
  • Mastoids (pain)
  • Pain & Temperature
  • Temporal Pulse


  • Bruits