DMI 55 - Skull Final Review UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is the cranial bone that connects with the vertebral column? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Occipital
What is the suture joining the parietal bones? - CORRECT ANSWER - Sagittal suture
What is the radiologic baseline when doing a PA skull - CORRECT ANSWER - OML
This skull projection, the petrous ridges project into the lower ⅓ of the orbits - CORRECT
ANSWER - PA AXIAL (CALDWELL)
In the SMV projection, this radiographic baseline is parallel to the image receptor. - CORRECT
ANSWER - IOML
In the waters projection, the angle of the OML to the IR is... - CORRECT ANSWER - 37
degrees
The number of cranial bones? - CORRECT ANSWER - 8.
The name literally means great hole - CORRECT ANSWER - Foramen magnum
The point where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet? - CORRECT ANSWER - bregma
The best projection in the sinus series to see all 4 sinuses? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Lateral projection
, The junction between the nasal bones and frontal bones? - CORRECT ANSWER - Nasion
The sinuses that are best demonstrated in the waters projection - CORRECT ANSWER -
Maxillary
The radiographic base line that connects between the two eyes? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Interpupillary line
The radiographic landmark at the level of the anterior nasal spine? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Acanthion
What is the landmark at the area of the chin? - CORRECT ANSWER - Mentum
Another name for the angle of the mandible - CORRECT ANSWER - Gonion
The name of the fx that can occur when the eyeball is hit directly by the fist: - CORRECT
ANSWER - Blowout fx
The landmark of the skull located directly above the nasion - CORRECT ANSWER -
Glabella
A tripod fx may occur when the bone is struck with too much force - CORRECT
ANSWER - Zygoma
The bones closely associated with the tear ducts - CORRECT ANSWER - Lacrimal
These are the tiniest bones of the entire skull - CORRECT ANSWER - Inner ear - Stapes,
malleus, incus
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is the cranial bone that connects with the vertebral column? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Occipital
What is the suture joining the parietal bones? - CORRECT ANSWER - Sagittal suture
What is the radiologic baseline when doing a PA skull - CORRECT ANSWER - OML
This skull projection, the petrous ridges project into the lower ⅓ of the orbits - CORRECT
ANSWER - PA AXIAL (CALDWELL)
In the SMV projection, this radiographic baseline is parallel to the image receptor. - CORRECT
ANSWER - IOML
In the waters projection, the angle of the OML to the IR is... - CORRECT ANSWER - 37
degrees
The number of cranial bones? - CORRECT ANSWER - 8.
The name literally means great hole - CORRECT ANSWER - Foramen magnum
The point where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet? - CORRECT ANSWER - bregma
The best projection in the sinus series to see all 4 sinuses? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Lateral projection
, The junction between the nasal bones and frontal bones? - CORRECT ANSWER - Nasion
The sinuses that are best demonstrated in the waters projection - CORRECT ANSWER -
Maxillary
The radiographic base line that connects between the two eyes? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Interpupillary line
The radiographic landmark at the level of the anterior nasal spine? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Acanthion
What is the landmark at the area of the chin? - CORRECT ANSWER - Mentum
Another name for the angle of the mandible - CORRECT ANSWER - Gonion
The name of the fx that can occur when the eyeball is hit directly by the fist: - CORRECT
ANSWER - Blowout fx
The landmark of the skull located directly above the nasion - CORRECT ANSWER -
Glabella
A tripod fx may occur when the bone is struck with too much force - CORRECT
ANSWER - Zygoma
The bones closely associated with the tear ducts - CORRECT ANSWER - Lacrimal
These are the tiniest bones of the entire skull - CORRECT ANSWER - Inner ear - Stapes,
malleus, incus
