Category: P

A line or ridge in the median line of the palate. The raphe appears as a whitish line, which sometimes turns into a slight groove at its posterior end.  

Rape that occurs when the victim is assaulted by another prisoner or by a prison employee.  

The possible excursion of motion at a joint, accomplished by an examiner, without any muscle contraction by the patient. This can be measured by a goniometer. The excursion is normally slightly greater than active range of motion. The examiner assesses the end point.  

Either of the two barlike processes of the pubic bone that extend laterally and posteriorly from the pubic symphysis. The inferior ramus articulates with the ischium; the superior ramus articulates with the ilium and forms the front of the acetabulum.  

The branch of a spinal nerve carrying motor axons to and sensory axons from the deep (intrinsic) muscles of the back and the skin that overlies them.  

A frontal radiograph of the skull. It is used to examine the skull for disease, trauma, and developmental abnormalities.  

A type of extraoral curved-surface radiograph that shows the entire upper and lower jaws in a continuous single film.  

That radiation being emitted directly to the patient from an x-ray source. Radiation arriving directly from its source without interaction with matter.  

Radiation of heat by a source of light, as that from an electric bulb.  

Light rays that penetrate tissues only fractions of a millimeter, are absorbed by cells, and cause physical and biological changes. This type of radiation causes surface heating.