Test 1 Intro to sonography
AIUM - Answer- promote the usage of ultrasound in physical medicine
SDMS - Answer- promotes excellence in the field and sets high educational standards. adopted a code of conduct
ARDMS - Answer- evaluates and certifies the proficiency of sonographers
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Test 1 Intro to sonography
AIUM - Answer- promote the usage of ultrasound in physical medicine
SDMS - Answer- promotes excellence in the field and sets high educational standards. adopted a code of conduct
ARDMS - Answer- evaluates and certifies the proficiency of sonographers
brachio- - Answer- arm
cardio- - Answer- heart
co- - Answer- together
colo- - Answer- colon, large intestine
contra- - Answer- against
cysto- - Answer- bladder
dactyl- - Answer- pertaining to fingers or toes
decub- - Answer- side
dorso- - Answer- back
dys- - Answer- difficult or painful
ecto- - Answer- outside
encephalo- - Answer- pertaining to brain
endo- - Answer- within
entero- - Answer- pertaining to the intestines
epi- - Answer- upon
gastro- - Answer- pertaining to the stomach
hema-/hemo- - Answer- pertaining to blood
hemi- - Answer- half
hepato- - Answer- pertaining to liver
hydro- - Answer- pertaining to water
-itis - Answer- inflammation
-oid - Answer- like
-oma - Answer- tumor
-osis - Answer- abnormal condition or process
-pathy - Answer- abnormality
-phobia - Answer- abnormal fear
-plasty - Answer- surgical correction
, -ptosis - Answer- falling or drooping
-rhapy - Answer- suture
-scopy - Answer- inspection
-tomy - Answer- incision
-uria - Answer- contained within the urine
ultrasound - Answer- Sound with frequencies above the upper limits of the human ear (2 to 20 MHz).
sonography - Answer- The imaging of deep structures of the body by recording echoes of pulses of ultrasonic waves
directed into the tissues and reflected by tissue planes where there is a change in density.
Acoustics - Answer- the scientific study of sound, especially of its generation, transmission, and reception.
sonographer - Answer- an Allied Health professional with special training in the use of ultrasound equipment for
diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. One who graphs or draws with sound.
transducer - Answer- a device that converts electrical signals into ultrasound waves and ultrasound waves back into
electrical impulses.
sonologist - Answer- a person who studies sinology, the science of sound.
sonometer - Answer- an instrument for measuring the sharpness and range of hearing through the use of controlled
amounts of sound.
sagittal - Answer- a vertical plane passing through the standing body from front to back. The mid-sagittal, or median,
plane splits the body into equal left and right halves.
superior - Answer- in anatomy, above or over top of.
inferior - Answer- in anatomy, below or toward the feet.
longitudinal - Answer- or relating to length. It means along the length, or running lengthwise.
transverse - Answer- a horizontal plane passing through the standing body so that the transverse plane is parallel to the
floor.
medial - Answer- relating to, situated in, or extending toward the middle.
lateral - Answer- structure lying away from the midline.
coronal - Answer- the plane that divides the body into front and back portions.
christian johann doppler - Answer- an Austrian scientist who first postulated the effect of motion on the pitch of sounds
and named it the Doppler Effect.
curie brothers - Answer- discovered piezoelectricity. They established the presence of the piezoelectric effect when they
observed that crystals will expand and contract when placed in an alternating electrical field. Their discoveries led to the
development of the modern transducer.
piezoelectricity - Answer- The property of certain crystals that causes them to produce voltage when a mechanical
pressure such as sound vibrations is applied to them.
john wild - Answer- first to use ultrasound to detect tissue thickness. researched that cancerous tissue is different from
normal tissue. constructed early prototype breat scanner and rectal transducer to scan large bowel.
ian donald - Answer- developed a contact compound scanner along with Tom Brown in 1957. In 1960 they developed a
mechanical sector scanner, then later a hand-held scanner which they called the diasonograph. He is credited with
contributing to the diagnosis of hydramnios, multiple pregnancies, and hydatidiform. He also introduced the fluid-filled
bladder technique. He is well known as the "father of obstetric ultrasound" for the first demonstration of a fetal gestational
sac.
body mechanics - Answer- the use of correct movements during the performance of any activity.
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