Fingers
Thumb
Hand
Wrist
Vocabulary
100
Fingers are called the ____________ and are considered to be part of the hand.
What are digits?
100
The thumb is on this side of the body.
What is the lateral side?
100
The bones in the palm of the hand.
What are the metacarpals?
100
The proximal row of carpal bones beginning with the lateral side.
What is scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, and pisiform?
100
Phalanges (singular).
What is phalanx?
200
The small long bones in digits 1 through 5 are called _________.
What are phalanges?
200
The number of phalanges that the thumb has.
What is 2?
200
The small bones in the region of the first MCP joint.
What are the sesamoid bones?
200
This occurs when the hand is moved toward the medial side of the wrist.
What is ulnar deviation?
200
Movement of the hand toward the lateral side of the wrist.
What is radial deviation?
300
The rounded tips of the distal phalanges.
What are ungual tufts?
300
The number of IP joints that the thumb has.
What is 1?
300
The size and orientation of the cassettes for the routine hand examination.
What is 8 x 10" lengthwise?
300
The cassette size and orientation for a routine wrist examination.
What is 10" x 12" (24 x 30 cm) crosswise, 3 on 1?
300
IR
What is image receptor?
400
The cassette size and orientation of a routine finger exam.
What is 8" x 10" (18 x 24 cm) crosswise, 3 on 1?
400
The position of the hand when the thumb is in a PA obliqued position.
What is PA?
400
The central ray for the PA oblique hand.
What is perpendicular to the third MCP joint?
400
This supplemental projection of the wrist allows the pisiform and lunate to be seen free of superimposition.
What is the AP oblique projection (medial rotation)?
400
The classification of bone of the carpal bones.
What is short?
500
The central ray for a routine finger exam.
What is perpendicular to the proximal IP (PIP) joint?
500
The degree the arm should be abducted for an AP position of the thumb.
What is 90 degrees?
500
The structures seen when a lateral hand is positioned with fingers fanned.
What are the phalanges individually demonstrated?
500
This supplemental view requires a 20 degree angle of the tube towards the elbow.
What is the PA axial projection (Stecher method)?
500
OID
What is object-to-image distance?
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