Abbreviations
Characteristics of x-rays
Positioning
Diagnostic Techniques
Ultrasound
Potpourri
100

CXR

What is a chest x-ray?

100

What do photographic plates do?

What is expose the silver coating and cause it to blacken.

100

Light source in front, photographic plate behind the person.

What is anteroposterior?

100

Plain films

What are x-rays (digital radiography)?

100

What do you call the picture made by ultrasound?

What is a sonogram?

100

What was Joseph's (Mary's husband) profession?

What was a carpenter?

200
US

What is an ultrasound?

200

What does "penetrate substances" mean?

What is pass through?

200

X-ray source to the side of the patient

What is a lateral view?

200

Beaming x-rays at multiple angles through a section of a patient's body.

What is computed tomography (CT)?

200

What does in vitro mean?

What is in glass?

200

According to Spotify, what was the top love song added to love-themed playlists around Valentine’s Day 2020?

What is "All of me" by John Legend

300

Angio

What is an angiogram?

300

What happens to x-rays when they come in contact with a substance?

What is scatter?

300

X-ray source behind the patient, and the plate in front of the patient.

What is posteroanterior?

300

Using magnetic fields to generate multiple images.

What is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)?

300

What does in vivo mean?

What is in life?

300

Which Greek goddess is associated with red roses?

What is Aphrodite?
400
KUB

What is kidney, ureter, bladder?

400

How do x-rays travel?

What is in straight lines?

400

X-ray source slanting at an angle to the patient.

What is an oblique view?

400

Uses sound waves to form pictures.

What is ultrasound?

400

How many specialties use ultrasound?

What is all of them?

400

In which U.S. city did the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre happen on Feb. 14, 1929?

What is Chicago?

500

MRI

What is magnetic resonance imaging?

500

How can I see x-rays?

What is you cannot, they are invisible.

500

Lying down on the side.

What is lateral decubitus?

500

Type of medical imaging that makes an "x-ray movie".

What is Fluoroscopy?

500

What is one advantage of using ultrasound?

-not ionizing

-can guide needle

500

What do yellow roses symbolize?

What is friendship?

1000

IVP

What is an intravenous pyelogram?

1000

What do you call it when the waves of energy (x-rays) charge the neutral ions?

What is ionization?

1000

Turning a joint outward.

What is external rotation?

1000

Invasive procedures using CT or ultrasound guidance.

What is interventional radiology?

1000

What is the med term for "lying down"?

What is recumbant?

1000

What major invention was patented on Valentine's Day?

What is the telephone?

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