Patient Scenarios
A patient is lying flat on their back and looking toward the ceiling. What position are they in?
What is supine position?
This region is located directly around the navel.
What is the umbilical region?
A medical term contains dors/o. What part of the body does this combining form refer to?
What is the back?
This imaging method uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of internal structures.
What is sonography?
Which plane divides the body into superior and inferior portions?
What is the axial plane?
A patient is lying on their abdomen with their face directed downward. What position is this?
What is prone position?
This region is located above the umbilical region and is in the upper middle portion of the abdomen.
What is the epigastric region?
A term contains cephal/o. What body structure does this combining form identify?
What is the head?
This process produces images of internal structures using ionizing radiation.
What is radiology?
Which plane divides the body into anterior and posterior portions?
What is the coronal plane?
A patient is lying on their side with their knees bent. What position is being described?
What is lateral position?
This region is located below the umbilical region in the lower middle portion of the abdomen.
What is the hypogastric region?
Translate anter/ior.
What is pertaining to the front?
This process records slices and displays internal structures in anatomic cross section.
What is tomography?
A patient is lying on their back with their body tilted so that their head is lower than their feet. What position is this?
What is Trendelenburg position?
A patient is sitting upright and supported by pillows behind the neck. Which position is commonly used when the patient needs to sit upright comfortably?
What is orthopnea position?
The right lumbar region is located between which two right-sided abdominopelvic regions?
What are the right hypochondriac and right iliac regions?
Translate cephal/ad.
What is toward the head?
This imaging method uses high-strength, computer-controlled magnetic fields to produce sectional images.
What is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)?
Which plane divides the body into right and left sides?
What is the sagittal plane?
A patient is lying on one side, positioned between a lateral and prone position. The upper knee is drawn toward the chest and the lower arm is behind the body. What position is this?
What is semiprone position?
Name the three regions on the left side of the abdominopelvic region, from top to bottom.
What are left hypochondriac, left lumbar, and left iliac regions?
A medical term contains medi/o + later/o + -al. What directional term is created, and what does it mean?
What is mediolateral, meaning pertaining to the middle and to the side?
A patient receives a radioactive material, and a gamma camera detects radiation from different parts of the body. What imaging method is being used?
What is nuclear medicine?
A radiograph is described as an AP projection. Using the directional terminology you've learned, what do the letters AP stand for?
What is anteroposterior — pertaining to the front and to the back?