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This is the shorest aspect of the small intestine
What is the Duodenum?
The number of separate bones in the body.
What is 206?
This type of respiration should be employed for routine Chest Radiography?
What is inspiration ? (2nd full inspiration)
The level that the CR is directed for a Lateral Chest Radiograph.
what is T7?
The depression located on the superior portion of the sternum.
What is the jugular notch?
The part of the large intestine found between the left and right colic flexures.
What is the Transverse Colon?
The structural term for a freely moveable joint.
What is synovial?
Air or gas that escapes into the pleural cavity describes this condition.
What is pneumothorax?
The projection best demonstrates the Apices of the lungs.
What is AP lordotic?
The area of the lung where the bronchi and major blood vessels enter & leave.
What is the Hilum?
The nickname of the greater omentum.
What is the "Fatty Apron"?
The vertical plane that divides the body into right and left halves .
What is the median or midsagittal plane?
The number of ribs visible on a well- inpspired PA Chest Radiograph?
What is 10?
Visualization of this structure indicates proper exposure in an AP Abdomen radiograph.
What is the Psoas Muscles?
A projection that merely skims a body part.
What is Tangential?
The vertebrae loaction that the iliac crest corresponds to as a topogrpahical landmark.
A position in which the head is lower than the feet.
What is trendelenburg?
This structure is at the terminal end of the respiratory system.
What is the alveoli?
This is the primary disadvantage of performing an AP projection of the chest rather than a PA.
The term that describes movement of an arm or leg towards the midline of the body.
What is Adduction?
The largest solid organ of the abdomen.
What is the liver?
Term describing the path or direction of the x-ray beam.
What is "projection"?
The structure that serves as a common passageway for both food and air.
What is the pharynx?
In an AP upright projection of the abdomen, the central ray is directed to this level.
What is 2" above the iliac crest?
The name of the position when the patient is prone and the beam is directed horizontally.
What is Ventral Decubitis?