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Limbs
Positioning
Directions
Potpourri
100
The directional term and abbreviation for the front side of the leg above the carpus or tarsus.
What is cranial, Cr?
100
This is the marker that should be used if an animal is in right lateral recumbency.
What is an R?
100
The term for nearer the point of origin.
What is proximal?
100
This is how you should hang a radiograph on the view box.
What is patient's head to your left in lateral or like a mirror image if DV/VD (like shaking hands)?
200
The directional term and abbreviation for the back side of the leg above the carpus or tarsus.
What is caudal, Cd?
200
Where the limb of interest should be positioned.
What is as close to the cassette as possible?
200
The term for any point on the head that is closer to the nose.
What is rostral?
200
When you split a film you should have the limbs facing this direction.
What is the same?
300
The directional term and abbreviation for the underside of the front foot.
What is palmar, Pa?
300
2 Positioning aides that were discussed in class.
What is troughs, sandbags, gloves, gauze ties, foam wedges
300
The term meaning toward the head and the term meaning toward the back end.
What are cranial and caudal?
300
The term when the beam does not follow one of the major directional axes.
What is oblique?
400
The directional term and abbreviation for the underside of the rear foot.
What is plantar, Pl?
400
The position that a patient would be in if you were asked to take a DV thorax radiograph.
What is sternal?
400
What the first and last letters of a view stand for in relation to the x-ray beam.
What is where the beam enters and exits?
400
The older term for the view of the limb above the carpus or tarsus that goes from the front of the limb to the back of the limb.
What is AP?
500
This is how you would hang a DPa radiograph of a foot on the viewbox.
What is with the toes pointing downward?
500
The reason we place the area of interest closest to the cassette.
What is to reduce magnification and distortion?
500
The term that O stands for.
What is oblique?
500
The place where you should center the beam if you know where the problem is.
What is at the problem area?