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An important landmark for determining the central ray location on a PA chest.
What is the vertebra prominens?
100
An important landmark for determining the CR placement on an AP chest.
What is the juglar notch?
100
The primary muscle of inspiration.
What is the diaphragm?
100
A common name for the thyroid cartilage of the larynx.
What is the Adam's apple?
100
Part of the digestive system that connects the pharynx with the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
200
A common name for the larynx.
What is the voice box?
200
This structure that connects the larynx to the main bronchi; it is sometimes called the windpipe.
What is the trachea?
200
The area labeled C:
What is the carina?
200
This side of the lungs has three lobes.
What is the right lung?
200
Delicate double-walled sac or membrane of the lungs.
What is the pleura?
300
The area labeled B:
What is the apex?
300
The potential space between the dobule-walled pleura.
What is the pleural cavity?
300
Condition where air or gas is present in the pleural cavity.
What is a pneumothorax?
300
Condition where fluid is within the pleural cavity.
What is a pleural effusion?
300
The extreme outermost lower corner of each lung.
What is the costophrenic angle?
400
The medial portion of the thoracic cavity between the lungs.
What is the mediastinum?
400
This gland is located behind the upper sternum, it is prominent in infancy and reaches its maximum size at puberty, then gradually decreases in size unitl it almost disappears in adulthood.
What is the thymus gland?
400
Minimum pairs of ribs that be seen on a full inspiration for a PA chest.
What is 10?
400
kVp range for chest radiography.
What is 110 to 125 kVp?
400
Rounded upper area above the level of the clavicles on the lungs.
What is the apex?
500
Difficult breathing.
What is dyspnea?
500
Fluid within the lungs.
What is pulmonary edema?
500
A mechanical obstruction.
What is aspiration?
500
Persistent obstruction of the airways that usually causes difficulty in emptying the lungs of air.
What is COPD?
500
SID for chest radiograph.
What is 72 inches?