Pathology
This respiratory condition results in a decrease in required exposure factors.
What is Emphysema?
This is the term used when the patient's head is positioned lower than their feet when lying on a table or stretcher.
What is trendelenburg?
According to SC-35, repeat rates should be this percentage or less.
What is 5%
This is the term used to refer to an incomplete or partial dislocation.
What is subluxation?
Often confused with the music style that Bob Marley was famous for, this is the name given to the folds of the mucous membrane of the stomach
What are rugae?
If a patient is paraplegic, the patient has lost capability in this area.
What is the lower part of the body (legs)?
This is the optimal breathing instruction for a lateral L-spine image
What is hold on expiration?
This code should be called when a patient becomes extremely violent.
What is a code white?
This is the term used for a twisted loop of bowel.
What is a volvulus?
This is the name of the structures which produce cerebrospinal fluid.
What are the choroid plexus?
The suffix “pnea” refers to this physiological mechanism.
What is breathing?
The external oblique and the Coyle Method are 2 types of elbow views that are very effective for proper visualization of this anatomical part - a common site for fractures
What is the radial head?
Bone mineral density tests are used to detect this condition.
What is osteoporosis?
This is the term used to describe free air in the mediastinum.
What is pneumomediastinum?
The stomach is positioned the highest in this type of body habitus.
What is hypersthenic?
This condition is often a result of a congenital defect or obstruction of the cerebral aqueduct.
What is hydrocephalus?
This aspect of the large intestine is best visualized with the patient in an RPO position.
What is the splenic flexure?
In general radiography, recorded detail and sharpness are most affected by this change made on the x-ray console.
What is focal spot size?
This is the term used to describe the process of deterioration of the intervertebral disk spaces and is a similar process to osteoarthritis.
What is degenerative disk disease?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The renal veins collect blood from the kidneys and empty into this large vessel.
Cleft Palate is non-union of these bones.
What are the maxillary bones? (spec. Palatine process. Palatine bones also accepted)
The shallow depression located on the anterior side of the distal humerus receives this when the elbow is flexed.
What is the coronoid process?
This term is the result of differential absorption of radiation in tissues.
What is subject contrast?
Emesis is another term for this physiological action.
What is vomiting?
This carpal bone is the first to develop in children.
What is the capitate?