RAD 110 Bony Thorax and Vertebral Column TEST Questions with
Correct Answers
Question 1.
What is a function of the Bony thorax?
Correct Answer: -Supports the walls of pleural cavity
-Protects: heart & lungs
Question 2.
What type of bone is the sternum and name the three parts?
Correct Answer: flat bone manubrium, body, xiphoid process
Question 3.
What are the three notches of the manubrium?
Correct Answer: jugular notch/Suprasernal notch and two clavicular notches
Question 4.
How many pairs of ribs are there and what other bone do the numbers correlate with?
Correct Answer: 12 and the thoracic spine
Question 5.
The costal cartilage of the first 7 ribs articulate with what structure? What do 8-10
articulate with?
Correct Answer: Sternum, costal cartilage of the 7th rib
Question 6.
What is a true rib? What are the 8-12th ribs called?
Correct Answer: They attach to the sternum. False
Question 7.
What is another name for the 11th and 12th ribs and why?
Correct Answer: floating because they only have one attachment at the
Question 8.
What are the spaces between the ribs called?
Correct Answer: intercostal spaces
Question 9.
What position is the diaphragm in on inspiration?
, Correct Answer: lowest possible
Question 10.
What is the best position of the patient for a chest xray and why?
Correct Answer: upright for the best and easiest inspiration
Question 11.
SC joints join what two body parts?
Correct Answer: sternum and clavicle
Question 12.
Costovertebral joints are one articulation of the ribs with the spine. What is the other?
Correct Answer: costotransverse
Question 13.
What are the costochondral joints?
Correct Answer: The cartilage of the 8-10th ribs articulate with the car-tilage of
7th
Question 14.
What is the heavily curved portion of the rib called?
Correct Answer: angle
Question 15.
Where is the costal groove located on the rib?
Correct Answer: inferior margin
Question 16.
What are the two joints between the handle, body, and tip of the sword of the sternum
called?
Correct Answer: manubriosternal and xiphisternal
Question 17.
What is the term for malignant neoplasm of the bone marrow?
Correct Answer: multiple myeloma
Question 18.
What are forked ribs?
Correct Answer: the sternal end of the rib is divided into two oarts
Correct Answers
Question 1.
What is a function of the Bony thorax?
Correct Answer: -Supports the walls of pleural cavity
-Protects: heart & lungs
Question 2.
What type of bone is the sternum and name the three parts?
Correct Answer: flat bone manubrium, body, xiphoid process
Question 3.
What are the three notches of the manubrium?
Correct Answer: jugular notch/Suprasernal notch and two clavicular notches
Question 4.
How many pairs of ribs are there and what other bone do the numbers correlate with?
Correct Answer: 12 and the thoracic spine
Question 5.
The costal cartilage of the first 7 ribs articulate with what structure? What do 8-10
articulate with?
Correct Answer: Sternum, costal cartilage of the 7th rib
Question 6.
What is a true rib? What are the 8-12th ribs called?
Correct Answer: They attach to the sternum. False
Question 7.
What is another name for the 11th and 12th ribs and why?
Correct Answer: floating because they only have one attachment at the
Question 8.
What are the spaces between the ribs called?
Correct Answer: intercostal spaces
Question 9.
What position is the diaphragm in on inspiration?
, Correct Answer: lowest possible
Question 10.
What is the best position of the patient for a chest xray and why?
Correct Answer: upright for the best and easiest inspiration
Question 11.
SC joints join what two body parts?
Correct Answer: sternum and clavicle
Question 12.
Costovertebral joints are one articulation of the ribs with the spine. What is the other?
Correct Answer: costotransverse
Question 13.
What are the costochondral joints?
Correct Answer: The cartilage of the 8-10th ribs articulate with the car-tilage of
7th
Question 14.
What is the heavily curved portion of the rib called?
Correct Answer: angle
Question 15.
Where is the costal groove located on the rib?
Correct Answer: inferior margin
Question 16.
What are the two joints between the handle, body, and tip of the sword of the sternum
called?
Correct Answer: manubriosternal and xiphisternal
Question 17.
What is the term for malignant neoplasm of the bone marrow?
Correct Answer: multiple myeloma
Question 18.
What are forked ribs?
Correct Answer: the sternal end of the rib is divided into two oarts
