Any preschooler with conjunctivitis should have his ears checked. If your child sticks his tongue out far enough, you may see some things you never saw before which may frighten you. There is a double row of large taste buds in a V formation at the back of the tongue. The epiglottis may stick up behind that. It looks like a flap about the size and shape of the tip of the little finger.
Many people think that the head is round because it looks smooth when it is covered with hair.
Newborns have ridges in their skull called suture lines. These are places where the skull bones come together. Everyone has a protuberance behind each ear and at the base of the skull, but sometimes parents haven't discovered these until they feel their child's head after a fall, and then they become unnecessarily alarmed. Since the septum goes only part way up, nosebleeds from high in the nose come out of both nostrils at the same time. You can recognize the typical low in the nose nosebleed because it comes out of only one nostril, except on the rare occasion that the bleeding is so profuse that blood goes up over the septum and comes out the other nostril as well.