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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. Right and wrong conduct is known as...
Anorexia
Hemiplegia
Ethics
The use of a fetal transplantation for research
2. Latin for 'things done; deeds'; the facts and circumstances attendant to the act in question would be called...
Insurance agent
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Res gestae
Litigation
3. Information given by a patient to a medical personnel which cannot be disclosed witout consent of the person who gave it is...
Quality control
The point where the first sound is heard.
Privileged communication
Knee
4. Inflammation of the nasal mucosa results in...
Shallow respiration
Adjuster
Rhinitis
kidney
5. Diseases that can be communicated form one person to another are called.....
Contagious
Take vital signs
Usual - customary and reasonable
Fax machine
6. An interval after a payment is due to the insurance company in which the policy holder may make payments - and still the policy remains in effect is called...
Indemnities
Shallow respiration
0.50%
Grace period
7. When a patient has health insurance - the percentage of covered services that is the responsibility of the patient to pay is known as...
Coinsurance
CMS-1500
October 1 to September 30
Vasodilator
8. Branches of the bundle branches - which transmit the impluses to the walls of the ventricles - causing the ventricles to the contract are called...
hr or h
ECG
hyper
punkinje fibers
9. A ............... requires the patient to be fasting and then blood is taken every hour for a predetermined time..
puncture
Colon
Glucose tolerance test
CA
10. Making a duplicate file to protect computer information form being lost is called making a....
umbilical region
Hand
Backup
Below
11. The abbreviation for above or high is
Third
gr
hyper
A stethoscope and shygmomanometer
12. The abbreviation for syrup is...
2.4 mm
Make a fist
syr
Pronation
13. The glucose tolerance test is a ...........-test
Timed
Diastolic pressure
Felony
Knee
14. The term 'Universal Precautions' is an....
Rhinitis
Built to provide support & structure
Overall approach to infection control
Cardiovascular
15. A stethoscope is used to listen to body sounds by...
22
Nasopharynx and tonsillar area
Auscultation
Life threatening
16. The upper middle area of the abdomen is called the....
Puncture-resistant
Cardiovascular
PPBS
Epigastric Region
17. The computer key DEL command means...
liters per minute
Delete
Tachypnea
Homeostasis
18. Latin for 'things decided' that is - a matter already decided by judicial authority is called...
Osteology
dsg
Res judicata
Carrier
19. Body language -body posture -space and distance are all examples of.....
Body temperature
90-130
Plasma
Non-verbal communication
20. The major vein that drains the head and brain is called the...
Jugular
Extended care facility
Serologic
Respondeat superior
21. The abbreviation for both ears is...
Direction or shape
AU
Appendicitis
Echocardiography
22. A 224-hr urine specimen should be...
Assumption of risk
Oxygen
chilled/refrigerated
Chain of custody
23. An act that violates criminal law i called...
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.
Crime
Thirds face up
Shallow respiration
24. A date on a bottle of medication that provides a ''use until'' date is the...
Subscriber
Deposit slip
Outdate or expiration date
Reflex
25. It is........................ to deny treatment to an HIV infected patients
Jugular
Fibrillation
Pleural effusion
Unethical
26. Aserious chronic disease of the liver is called...
Uniform
sol
Cirrhosis
Comprehensive
27. 'HIV' means...
lancet
Show respect for thei culture
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Draw a line through the error -insert the correct information -date and initial it.
28. The abbreviation for cancer is...
Seven
Surgical removal
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.
CA
29. The abbreviation for chief complaint is...
a paper towel
CC
Paraplegia
Q wave
30. When preparing a blood smear form a skin puncture you should........... the first drop....
IM
Q wave
Wipe away
Lavander-top evacuated tube
31. The majority of the bones in the arms and legs are.......... bones
Head
Ten
Long
Delete
32. High blood pressure is referred to as
nose
Vaginitis
Hypertension
Angina pectoris
33. The balance between the heat produced and the heat lost is the...
Speak slowing -loudly -and in easy-to- understand language.
Malpractice
Admissions
Body temperature
34. The vertebrae are located in the ...
Dorsal recumbent
Cell
Back
Myocardial infarction
35. The word element POST means...
Stertorous Respiration
after
Insurance agent
Red Blood Cells
36. With vital signs - any abnormal measurement must be inmediately reported to the...
condition of
Holder
Doctor
1 MINUTE
37. In a visual acuity reading of 20/60 - what does the 20 represent?
Brachial
Leg
CA
Distance between patient and test chart
38. Lying flat on one's back with arms at one's side is the.......... position
Consent
Narcotics
Dorsal recumbent
Draw a line through the error -insert the correct information -date and initial it.
39. The opposite of deep is...
Auxilliary
Superficial
after
Pulmonay
40. The physician has ordered 0.2 Gm of a medication. The amount on hand is 400 mg tabs. how many tablets will be given to the patient?
0.5 cc
lancet
oint -ung
Respiration
41. FICA provides benefits for...
Ethics
Social Security
Time limit
Red blood cells
42. The ability to see form another person's point of view is...
Empathy
Agonal
Plasma
Red
43. A rule of conduct made by a govenment body is...
Law
Three to four inches
Time
Incompetence
44. Low income patients can be covered by what type of insurance?
Right
The use of a fetal transplantation for research
Medicaid
Human Exposure
45. Aerobic bacteria prefer which of these environmental conditions to grow well?
Hand
Oxygen
Skull
Narcotic
46. Holding or detaining a person against his will is...
Contagious
Ethics
Smaller
False imprisonment
47. A statement given concerning some scientific -technical - or professional matter by an expert - such as a physical is called...
gr
Expert testimony
Clean -smooth - and dry
Smaller
48. Neoplasm refers to...
Apical-radial pulse
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.
New growth
pneumothorax
49. When PVC's fall o the T wave - occurs in pairs -runs of 3 or more -or are multiform in nature -these conditions are called....
Endorsement
villi
Life threatening
Keto-diastix
50. A weakness in the walls of the muscle that allows underlying tissue to push through it is called .....
1-the patient has had brest surgery on that side. 2-On an arm with an IV infusion.3- on an arm with a cast.
a hernia
Arm
Surgical removal