XRAY CHEST

Question 1

The membrane lying adjacent to the rib cage is known as ?

Answer 1

Parietal pleura

Question 2

On a PA chest when the lungs appear dark and the heart appears white with no lung tissue visualized through the heart shadow the operator has selected ?

Answer 2

Too Little KVP

Question 3

Which of the following is required to demonstrate air in the pleural space on the left side ?

Answer 3

Right Lateral Decubitus
(Since air seeks the highest point placing the affected side up)

Question 4

Which one of the follow are characteristics of the hypersthenic body type ?

Answer 4

Short and Wide

Question 5

What is the primary disadvantage of performing an AP projection of the chest rather than PA ?

Answer 5

Increase magnification of the heat

Question 6

Which one of the lungs has 3 lobes and 2 lobes ?

Answer 6

The Right lungs contains 3 lobes and the left contains to lobes

Question 7

Is the Thyroid located in the mediastinum ?

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Involuntary motion can be cause by heart muscle contraction ?

Answer 8

True

Question 9

TRUE OR FALSE
Air can/cannot be contained with the pleural cavity for a Pneumothorax ?

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What is a heart attack called?

Answer 10

Myocardial Infarction

Question 11

What color is the light that erase the PSP images after being processed ?

Answer 11

White laser light

Question 12

What is required to demonstrate small amount of fluid in the pleural cavity on the right side ?

Question 13

Gaseous exchange take places in the alveoli true or flase

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What is the Pharynx

Answer 14

A passage for food and fluids as well as air making it common to digestive

Question 15

The Four General Division of the respiratory

Answer 15

Is Pharynx, Trachea, Bronchi, and Lungs

Question 16

What is the Larynx ?

Answer 16

The Voice box

Question 17

What is the carina

Answer 17

It is the prominence or ridge of the lowest tracheal cartilage

Question 18

What is the pneumothorax?

Answer 18

It is air or gas pressure of blood in the pleural cavity

Question 19

The Mediastinum contains ?

Answer 19

The thymus gland, heart & and great vessels, the trachea, esophagus.

Question 20

What is so unique about the Aorta

Answer 20

It is the largest artey in the body.

Question 21

What is the sac that surrounds the heart ?

Answer 21

Pericardium

Question 22

If a patient is unable to assume a lordotic position what other way could the pulmonary apices be demonstrated ?

Answer 22

Patient supine, CR directed 15-20 degree cephalic

Question 23

What are the first branches of the aorta that supply blood to the heart ?

Answer 23

Coronary Arteries

Question 24

What is the medical term for an inflammation of the gallbladder ?

Answer 24

Cholecystitis

Question 25

Which two projection/position would best demonstrate a right anterior rib injury ?

Answer 25

PA & LAO

Question 26

Which bone would be radiographed to demonstrate the manubrium ?

Answer 26

Sternum

Question 27

What are the breathing instruction for a patient having a chest radiograph

Answer 27

Deep Inspiration

Question 28

What is Dysphagia ?

Answer 28

Difficult swallowing

Question 29

what is the vessel that transport blood form the abdomen back to the heart ?

Answer 29

Inferior vena cava

Question 30

In Which direction does the diaphragm move in inspiration ?

Answer 30

Inferiorly pulling air into the lungs

Question 31

"Heart attack" is a descriptive term of ?

Answer 31

Occluded coronary artery

Question 32

Which position of the chest would be best demonstrated a pleural effusion around the left lungs ?

Answer 32

Left lateral Decubitus (To demonstrate fluid on one side of the chest)

Question 33

What breathing instruction should be given to a patient for a below the diaphragm ?

Answer 33

Expiration

Question 34

How man chamber are the heart ?

Answer 34

4

Question 35

What is called where the brooch enter the lungs ?

Answer 35

The Hilum is the central part of the chest and enter the brooch and the pulmonary vessels

Question 36

A patient who lacking the substances in blood for clotting is suffering from what condition ?

Answer 36

Hemophilia

Question 37

The formation of pushes or sacs in the colon is called what ?

Answer 37

Diverticulosis

Question 38

What do you call the sac that enclosed the lungs

Answer 38

Pleura

Question 39

What would the position be referred to if the patient was lying down and the x ray tube was directed horizontally ?

Answer 39

Decubitus

Question 40

What is the superior vena cava

Answer 40

Is the larger vein that returns the blood to the heart from the head, neck, chest and upper extremities.

Question 41

What does not pass through the diaphragm

Answer 41

Trachea

Question 42

In which of the abdominal regions will the duodenum be located ?

Answer 42

Left Hypochondriac

Question 43

In Hypersthenic Patient, how does the stomach lie ?

Answer 43

High and Horizontal

Question 44

Which decubitus position is preferred for demonstrating air and fluid levels in the abdomen ?

Answer 44

Left lateral Decubitus

Question 45

What is the name of the condition where fluid collects in the space between the visceral and parietal pleura ?

Answer 45

A Pleural Effusion

Question 46

What is the disease of smoker that is characterized by inflation of the lungs with trapped air in the alveoli

Answer 46

Emphysema is a pulmonary disease that involves over expansion of the air spaces