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Medical Assistant Certification Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Groups or clusters of bacteria taken for laboratory study are called...






2. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as....






3. The presumtion or inference of negligence when an accident is otherise unable to be explained in terms of ordinary and known experience is called...






4. An injury that prevens a worker form performing one or more of the regular functions of his job would be known as a...






5. To help classify bacteria into two groups;gram-positive and gram-negative is a special stain called...






6. When the depth of breathing changes and the rate of the rise and fall of the chest is not steady - it is called....






7. Pactices to achieve asepsis are known as






8. In a visual acuity reading of 20/60 - what does the 20 represent?






9. Viruses can reproduce only in...






10. While the duration of the ST segment is not generally of clinical significance - it is an exceedingly important portion of the ECG because of...






11. The medical term for a decrease in size or wasting is...






12. The common term for a decubitus ulcer;a pressure sore is...






13. Conduct -courtesy -and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are known as...






14. Broken glassware which may be contaminated shall not be picked up directly with the hands - but by mechanical means - such as......






15. When measuring bloo pressure...






16. Negligence by a professional person is called...






17. The blood lancet is used for the collection of blood specimens by...






18. A payment for hospital charges incurred by an insured person because of injury or illness is called...






19. Insurance plans that pay a physician's full charge if it does not exceed his normal charge or does not exceed the amount normally charged for the service is called...






20. The medical term for turning the palm backward is...






21. Performing routine maintenance on laboratory equipment is critical. The maintenance plan should inclde...






22. General infection-control procedures are designed to prevent transmission of a wide range of ................ and to provide a wide margin of safety in the varied situations encountered in the health-care environment.






23. The abbreviation for ointment is...






24. What kind of environment do microorganisms grow best in?






25. The medical name for the nose bleed is called...






26. A rule of conduct made by a govenment body is...






27. Infected Pressure sores on the skin are called...






28. Inflammation of the gums is called...






29. Nitroglycerine is used for...






30. Payment made periodically to keep an insurance policy in force is called...






31. In the medical office the most frequently performed pulmonay function tests is....






32. Body language -body posture -space and distance are all examples of.....






33. Tendons -joints -bones - and cartilages are in the......... system






34. Reasonable anticipated skin -eye -mucous membrane - or parenteral contact with blood - or other potentially infectious materials that may result form the performance of an employee's duties is called....






35. The liver -stomach -mouth -and pancreas are in the .........system






36. The abbreviation for Papanicolaou smear iss...






37. When the patient makes abnormal noises like snoring sounds when he/she is breathing - it is called.......






38. The wird element PNEUMO means






39. While ordering procedures may vay -generallly a type a tepe and RH are ordered on all pregnant women.






40. The most important step in the performance of a venipuncture is...






41. The health worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted reasonable as compared with fellow workers.This is called...






42. Inflammation of the pleura is called...






43. Wgen a drop of blood is placed on a slide -place a second slide............ the first slide.






44. The major artery that supplies the kneww is called the...






45. One of the arteries that supplies the hand and forearm is called the ....






46. Concerning ECG's for irregular rhythms - any method or rate calculation that depends on intervals between complex is.............






47. An extrauterine pregnancy in which the fertilized ovum begins to develop outside the uterus is called...






48. The number on the Employees withholding exemption certificate is...






49. The second portion of the small intestine is called the...






50. An international perversion of thuth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance uopm it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right is called...