Pathology
Positioning
Miscellaneous
Pathological Terms
Anatomy
100

This respiratory condition results in a decrease in required exposure factors.

What is Emphysema?

100

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?

100

According to SC-35, repeat rates should be this percentage or less.

What is 5%

100

This is the term used to refer to an incomplete or partial dislocation.

What is subluxation?

100

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?

200

If a patient is paraplegic, the patient has lost capability in this area.

What is the lower part of the body (legs)?

200

This is the optimal breathing instruction for a lateral L-spine image

What is hold on expiration?

200

This code should be called when a patient becomes extremely violent.

What is a code white?

200

This is the term used for a twisted loop of bowel.

What is a volvulus?

200

This is the name of the structures which produce cerebrospinal fluid.

What are the choroid plexus?

300

The suffix “pnea” refers to this physiological mechanism.

What is breathing?

300

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?

300

Bone mineral density tests are used to detect this condition.

What is osteoporosis?

300

This is the term used to describe free air in the mediastinum.

What is pneumomediastinum?

300

The stomach is positioned the highest in this type of body habitus.

What is hypersthenic?

400

This condition is often a result of a congenital defect or obstruction of the cerebral aqueduct.

What is hydrocephalus?

400

This aspect of the large intestine is best visualized with the patient in an RPO position.

What is the splenic flexure?

400

In general radiography, recorded detail and sharpness are most affected by this change made on the x-ray console.

What is focal spot size?

400

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?

400

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

The renal veins collect blood from the kidneys and empty into this large vessel.

500

Cleft Palate is non-union of these bones.

What are the maxillary bones? (spec. Palatine process. Palatine bones also accepted)

500

The shallow depression located on the anterior side of the distal humerus receives this when the elbow is flexed.

What is the coronoid process?

500

This term is the result of differential absorption of radiation in tissues.

What is subject contrast?

500

Emesis is another term for this physiological action.

What is vomiting?

500

This carpal bone is the first to develop in children.

What is the capitate?