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Medical Assistant Certification Exam

Subjects : certifications, health-sciences

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The medical term for loss of appetite is...
Hemiplegia
Anorexia
Sinusitis
Pre-certification

2. The maxilla is located in the ...
Head
Statute of limitations
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Heart

3. A drug that decreases congestion is calleg a...
decongestant
Health maintenance organization
Plasma
AU

4. The electrode site should be...
Explanation of benefits
Arm
Breach of confidentiality
Clean -smooth - and dry

5. To measure a blood pressure -the medical assistant will need..
Agonal
Non-verbal communication
A stethoscope and shygmomanometer
bronchi

6. A computer monitor - hard drive - and printer are known as the ...
Hypo
Co-payment
Teeth
Hardware

7. A business letter written in a full block style will have all lines...
supp
Supiration
At the left hand margin
Litigation

8. Which of these generally results form an act of carelessness - without an intent to harm?
Positively identifying the patient
Clavicle
Brachial
Breach of confidentiality

9. Washing out the stomach through a nasogastric tube is called...
exposure control plan
Irregular Respiration
Blood films
Lavage

10. The wind pipe which conducts air between the larynx and lungs is called the...
Trachea
Colitis
Vasodilator
Third

11. In the positioning of the electrodes - if the electrodes are placed too close together - the emplitude will be ............
Timed
small
Pre-certification
Assault

12. Before placing a telefone caller on a hold it is appropriate to...
1-vomiting.2-headache.3-confusion.
22
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.
AMA Code of Ethics

13. The abbreviation for toxic shock syndrome is...
Non compus mentis
Res ipsa loquitur
TSS
EDTA added

14. The major artery that supplies the kneww is called the...
popliteal
Air -lungs
Placing the medication between the gum and the check
Sterilize

15. An obstruction of a coronary artery causing death of an area of the myocardium due to blockage of blood supply and oxygen supply is called...
Wrist
Myocardial infarction
Heart
Cultures

16. The patient with an infection may have...
tab
Twice
Deposition
loss of appetite and fatigue 2-fever -nause -rash -and vomiting. 3- pain -redness or swelling.

17. ................is the study of words and their relaionship to other words in a sentence.
A stethoscope and shygmomanometer
Coding
Grammar
lab

18. The study of bones is called...
Osteology
umbilical region
CC
Stertorous Respiration

19. The medical term for the basic unit of body structute is...
Fax machine
GI or G.I
Cell
Defendant

20. Failure to achieve an agreed upon result -even when the highest degree of skill has been used - is called...
Breach of contract
Malpractice
Fibrillation
decongestant

21. Performing routine maintenance on laboratory equipment is critical. The maintenance plan should inclde...
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.
Narcotic
Work in a circle to the periphery
Adduction

22. When anticoagulated blood is centrifuged....... goes to the tope of the tube.
PT and PTT
Plasma
Color Coded
loss of appetite and fatigue 2-fever -nause -rash -and vomiting. 3- pain -redness or swelling.

23. To cleanse the typical venipuncture site - begin at the intende site of the draw and....
Benefits
Will
Celiac
Work in a circle to the periphery

24. A payment for hospital charges incurred by an insured person because of injury or illness is called...
Hospital Benefits
fl or fld
pap smear
Breach of contract

25. Never clean a glass thermometer with...
A stethoscope and shygmomanometer
Security thermomether
Hot water
substances that have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse

26. The medical term for moving a body part away form the body is...
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.
Malpractice
Privileged communication
Abduction

27. The major artey that supplies the bladder -rectum -and some reproductive organs is called the...
elix
Medicare
Sterilization
iliac

28. The gauge of needle most commonly used for venipuncture is..... Gauge.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Prone
22
Remote

29. What is considered a normal adult pulse rate?
Res judicata
Nervous
Social Security
90-130

30. Low income patients can be covered by what type of insurance?
Skull
tinc
Leg
Medicaid

31. The word element CENTESIS means...
Backup
Opposite each other
villi
puncture

32. Which of the following is false?
Make sure the skin is damp when applying the electrode
Absence of oxygen
Veins pulsate
Direction or shape

33. The medical term for turning the palm backward is...
small punctures in the dermis
Pronation
Blood
ALCOHOL

34. The abbreviation for right ear is
AD
Overall approach to infection control
Arm
Malpractice

35. 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.
Microbiological Agents
decubitus ulcers
Deposit slip
syr

36. Schedule 1 drugs include...
Hospital Benefits
2.4 mm
diuretic
substances that have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse

37. Neoplasm refers to...
liters per minute
Knee-chest
New growth
Qui facit per alium facit per se

38. With vital signs -any abnormal measurement must be immediatly reported to the ....
Prenatal
ECG
Premium
Physician

39. A statement given concerning some scientific -technical - or professional matter by an expert - such as a physical is called...
0.50%
CMS-1500
Expert testimony
1-clean-voided speimen 2- mid-stream Specimen

40. The time established for filling law suits is...
Speak slowing -loudly -and in easy-to- understand language.
Statute of limitations
Tissue
Systolic pressure

41. Testimony of a withness under oath and written down before trial for possible use when the case comes to trial is....
Deposition
Tissue
Color Coded
Stertorous Respiration

42. A newsletter that wighs less than one pound would be considered.............. class mail.
2.4 mm
Third
Bland diet
TSS

43. One who Institutes a lawsuit is ...
Res gestae
2
Plaintiff
Diastolic pressure

44. FICA provides benefits for...
0.5cc
Delete
Social Security
iliac

45. What is considered a normal adult respiration per minute?
Negative
Sterilize
Tibia
14 to 20

46. Body temperature measured under the arm of a patient is called the..... temperature
The fourth intercostal spce right sternal border
Angina pectoris
Auxilliary
Oxygen

47. 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...
Hospital Benefits
Intercostal
gavae
Grace period

48. The abbreviation for gastrointestinal is...
Teeth
Back
GI or G.I
Diagnoses

49. When Preparing a blood smear -the spreader slide must be made of...
Move the cursor -right -left -up or down
Pulmonay
Glass
Benefits

50. The .............. form is used by non-institutuinal providers and suppliers to bill Medicare - Part B covered services.
CMS-1500
Appendicitis
An infection
arteries