Osteology

Question 1

What two terms refer to the front of the body?

Answer 1

Anterior and ventral

Question 2

Posterior and dorsal refer to the back of the body. However, when referring to the feet does dorsal refer to the upper surface or the lower surface of the feet?

Answer 2

Upper

Question 3

When describing the sole of the feet we use what term?

Answer 3

Plantar

Question 4

What plane divides the body into equal right and left halves?

Answer 4

Median or midsagittal plane

Question 5

How does a coronal (frontal) plane divide the body into?

Answer 5

Anterior and Posterior

Question 6

When the body is divided into superior and inferior portions it is said to be divide into what type of plane?

Answer 6

Transverse

Question 7

What position may turn the body from 1 to 89 degrees in relation to the plane of the film?

Answer 7

Oblique

Question 8

When a patient is laying down in a decubitus position, how is the central ray directed?

Answer 8

Horizontally

Question 9

When a patient is in a recumbent position with the table angled so that the head is lower than the feet the patient is in what type of position?

Answer 9

Trendelenburg

Question 10

The term projection refers to what?

Answer 10

The path of the central ray

Question 11

The way the body part is seen by the image receptor/film is called?

Answer 11

View

Question 12

The adult human skeleton is composed of how many bones?

Answer 12

206

Question 13

The skeleton is divided into appendicular and axial portions. The appendicular skeleton includes what bones?

Answer 13

Upper and lower extremities, shoulder girdle, and pelvic girdle

Question 14

The bones of the skull, vertebral column, thoracic cage, auditory ossicles, and the hyoid bones are part of the appendicular or axial skeleton?

Answer 14

Axial

Question 15

What two types of bone tissue are there?

Answer 15

Cancellous and compact