
On inspection of the external eye structures of an African-American patient, the nurse notices the sclerae are not white, but appear a darker shade with tiny black dots of pigmentation near the limbus. How does the nurse document this finding?
A) As an indication of a type of anemia
B) As a hordeolum or sty
C) As jaundice
D) As an expected racial variation
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