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Medical Assistant Certification Exam
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certifications
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health-sciences
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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...
Battery
Cultures
1-ask if you may put the caller on hold. 2- wait for the caller to confirm they can wait. 3-obtain a return phone number.
Anorexia
2. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as....
antitussive
Indemnities
pap smear
1-clean-voided speimen 2- mid-stream Specimen
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...
Heat eith steam under pressure
Hypo
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Res ipsa loquitur
4. An injury that prevens a worker form performing one or more of the regular functions of his job would be known as a...
Brachial
Partial disability
Cirrhosis
Homeostasis
5. To help classify bacteria into two groups;gram-positive and gram-negative is a special stain called...
Crime
Ten
pap smear
gram stain
6. When the depth of breathing changes and the rate of the rise and fall of the chest is not steady - it is called....
an EPA
Medicaid
Holder
Irregular Respiration
7. Pactices to achieve asepsis are known as
contributory negligence
Systolic pressure
Clean technique
Third
8. In a visual acuity reading of 20/60 - what does the 20 represent?
Distance between patient and test chart
So your clothes do not touch the sink.
A brush and dust pan
1-Rhythm of pulse beats.2-Rate(number of pulse beats per minute) 3-force of the beat.
9. Viruses can reproduce only in...
Subscriber
Absolute regular
Chain of custody
Living cells
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...
Skin preparation
AD
Emancipated minor
Shifts up or down form baseline
11. The medical term for a decrease in size or wasting is...
Angina pectoris
Atrophy
TPR
Gastric
12. The common term for a decubitus ulcer;a pressure sore is...
Intervals
bedsore
Saliva
Hemorrhoids
13. Conduct -courtesy -and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are known as...
Red
Keto-diastix
Medical etiquette
Law
14. Broken glassware which may be contaminated shall not be picked up directly with the hands - but by mechanical means - such as......
A brush and dust pan
contamination
Smile
Ledger
15. When measuring bloo pressure...
Unethical
Quadriplegia
1-the cuff should be applied to the bare upper arm.2-room should be quiet so that blood pressure can be heard.3-sphygmomanometer needs to clearly visible.
Comprehensive
16. Negligence by a professional person is called...
Malpractice
1-ask if you may put the caller on hold. 2- wait for the caller to confirm they can wait. 3-obtain a return phone number.
Brachial
Hearth
17. The blood lancet is used for the collection of blood specimens by...
unreliable
Skin puncture
Catastrophic
Worker's compensation
18. A payment for hospital charges incurred by an insured person because of injury or illness is called...
Sterilization
Hospital Benefits
Apical-radial pulse
Head
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...
mydriatic
Usual - customary and reasonable
Diastolic pressure
Co-payment
20. The medical term for turning the palm backward is...
1-vomiting.2-headache.3-confusion.
Jugular
Pronation
Q wave
21. Performing routine maintenance on laboratory equipment is critical. The maintenance plan should inclde...
How easy the system is to operate
Wipe away
bronchi
1-regularly scheduled check-ups 2-daily examination of equipment for frayed cords or broken parts.3- routine cleaning of the outside of the equipment with a damp cloth.
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.
A brush and dust pan
Auxilliary
Nervous
Microbiological Agents
23. The abbreviation for ointment is...
oint -ung
Third
Wipe away
Sinus arrest
24. What kind of environment do microorganisms grow best in?
urinary
Dark and warm
CC
Percussion
25. The medical name for the nose bleed is called...
Great toe
Stool sample
Brachial
Epistaxis
26. A rule of conduct made by a govenment body is...
1-Gently insert the needle a little deeper.2-Gently pull the needle or just a little.3-Remove the needle and tourniquet and prepare another site.
Quality control
Law
Hardware
27. Infected Pressure sores on the skin are called...
decubitus ulcers
Back
1 to 2 minutes
Sinusitis
28. Inflammation of the gums is called...
Gingivitis
1-catherer 2-cannula 3-tent
Plaintiff
Third
29. Nitroglycerine is used for...
Dorsal recumbent
treatment of angina pectoris
decubitus ulcers
Ledger
30. Payment made periodically to keep an insurance policy in force is called...
Menarche
Premium
Endorsement
small
31. In the medical office the most frequently performed pulmonay function tests is....
Palpate
Hypogastric region
Civil War
Spirometry.
32. Body language -body posture -space and distance are all examples of.....
Spirometry.
Non-verbal communication
Blood films
Premium
33. Tendons -joints -bones - and cartilages are in the......... system
Forgery
Muscular
Gastric
Sensitivity
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....
Blood
Sugar
Opposite each other
Occupational exposure
35. The liver -stomach -mouth -and pancreas are in the .........system
digestive
Never
Third
Defamation
36. The abbreviation for Papanicolaou smear iss...
Smile
pap smear
Feel
Arm
37. When the patient makes abnormal noises like snoring sounds when he/she is breathing - it is called.......
Stertorous Respiration
Nervous
antipyretic
Nervous
38. The wird element PNEUMO means
Air -lungs
0.5 cc
Auxilliary
A stethoscope and shygmomanometer
39. While ordering procedures may vay -generallly a type a tepe and RH are ordered on all pregnant women.
tinc
Holder
exposure control plan
Prenatal
40. The most important step in the performance of a venipuncture is...
Life threatening
Placing the medication between the gum and the check
Positively identifying the patient
Appendicitis
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...
Reasonable care
Leg
On top
Deposition
42. Inflammation of the pleura is called...
Take all complaints seriously and ake through notes
Paraplegia
Pleurisy
Dorsiflexion
43. Wgen a drop of blood is placed on a slide -place a second slide............ the first slide.
Unethical
On top
Rhinitis
Defamation
44. The major artery that supplies the kneww is called the...
Angina pectoris
popliteal
The use of a fetal transplantation for research
Law
45. One of the arteries that supplies the hand and forearm is called the ....
Brachial
Pertussis
Shifts up or down form baseline
Clean -smooth - and dry
46. Concerning ECG's for irregular rhythms - any method or rate calculation that depends on intervals between complex is.............
unreliable
Appendicitis
Unethical
Percussion
47. An extrauterine pregnancy in which the fertilized ovum begins to develop outside the uterus is called...
Hospital Benefits
An infection
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Ectopic
48. The number on the Employees withholding exemption certificate is...
contamination
unreliable
W-4
an arrhythmia
49. The second portion of the small intestine is called the...
Trachea
Unethical
exposure control plan
Jejenum
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...
An alcohol prep
Saliva
Premium
Fraud