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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. The word element PHLEBO means...
Hypnotic
vein
CPT
Vasodilator
2. A record of debits -credits -and balances is referred to as a patient's...
Narcotic
Hypnotic
Ledger
Battery
3. All spills of blood-contaminated fluids should be promtly cleaned up using.............. approved germicide - or a 1:10 solution of household bleach.
an EPA
Skin preparation
Nasopharynx and tonsillar area
CC
4. The mandible bone is located in the
Head
Colon
Hypertension
Show respect for thei culture
5. Oxygen is a administered to the patient by way of a ...............
First
Deposition
1-catherer 2-cannula 3-tent
Move the cursor -right -left -up or down
6. Ventricular depolarizarion produces an electrical force or vector with 2 components(1) Magnitude of force - and 2-...
Timed
Direction or shape
Dorsiflexion
Sterilization
7. Low income patients can be covered by what type of insurance?
Medicaid
Prenatal
Gland
Three to four inches
8. A notice of insurance claim or proff must be filed within a designated........... or it can be denied
1 MINUTE
Jejenum
Extended care facility
Time limit
9. Inflammation of the mucus lining of the vagina is called...
Vaginitis
Fibrillation
0.5 cc
Res gestae
10. What is considered a normal adult pulse rate?
Atrophy
Intercostal
90-130
Timed
11. ........................ values are increased in infections and inflammatory disease.
Colon
0.5 cc
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Primarily
12. A system whereby large quantities of data can be accessed -searched -sorted -and arranged very rapidly by computer is called a............... system
Show respect for thei culture
Database management
Head
Percussion
13. The computer's directional arrow keys...
Move the cursor -right -left -up or down
The use of a fetal transplantation for research
Hypnotic
Placebo
14. The fibula is located in the ...
Angina pectoris
Leg
Deposition
On top
15. The abbreviation for elixir is...
EDTA added
elix
Will
decongestant
16. The sphenoid bone is located in the
Statute of limitations
small punctures in the dermis
Fourth
Head
17. The International Classification of Disease -9th revision - Clinical Modification(ICD-9-CM) is used to code...
Diagnoses
Blood
UA
gram stain
18. The glucose tolerance test is a ...........-test
TSS
Consent
Agonal
Timed
19. Which is recorded as the systolic blood pressure?
The point where the first sound is heard.
hyper
Lithiotomy.
Glucose tolerance test
20. An accumulation of air in the pleural cavity after the lungs collapse is known as...
pneumothorax
Tunning fork
Leg
Statute of limitations
21. The process by which an object or area becomes unclean is ....
The point where the first sound is heard.
Checkbook
Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act
contamination
22. Permission granted by a person voluntarily and in his right mind is...
Consent
Carrier
Extended care facility
Intervals
23. The lateral movement of the limbs away form the median plane of the body - is calle...
abduction
Lavage
Hemorrhoids
Diuretic
24. The electrode site should be...
Quadriplegia
AD
Clean -smooth - and dry
Caller's divers licence #
25. When the patient kneels - and places his/her head and chest on the table with buttocks elevated - it is called the..... position.
Hardware
Knee-chest
Glass
Worker's compensation
26. What license must a physician have to dispense -prescribe -or administer controlled substances?
Ears
Knee-chest
When cleaning up blood or body fluids
Narcotics
27. The name for the collar bone is...
antitussive
Clavicle
Deviated septum
An alcohol prep
28. The use of ultrasound to produce a picture of the structure of the heart is called...
Stertorous Respiration
Skin preparation
Plasma
Echocardiography
29. A drug that causes dilation of blood vessels is called a...
Ethics
Distance between patient and test chart
Vasodilator
Skin puncture
30. The abbreviation for bedtime or hour of sleep is...
Gland
Diagnoses
Chain of custody
hs
31. To netermine the size of the needle remember that the higher the gauge number the......... needle
treatment of angina pectoris
Human Exposure
Adduction
Smaller
32. A health care worker who unconsciously transports harmful bacteria but is not ill called a...
Carrier
Specimen collection
Insurance agent
Gastric
33. When the physician feels with fingers or hands to determine the physical characteristics oftissues or organs it is called...
Civil War
Palpitation
P
Tissue
34. ............... testing should be made available by the employer to all workers who maybe concerned they have been infected with HIV through an occupational exposure.
Serologic
Hepatitis B
Perform quality control testing with every new kit and routinely thereafter.
So your clothes do not touch the sink.
35. The ................ wave represents atrial depolarization...
Checkbook
P
14 to 20
Consent
36. The ability to see form another person's point of view is...
Extended care facility
Opposite each other
Empathy
14 to 20
37. The abbreviation for electroencephalogram is...
Sterilization
bedsore
ECG
Adduction
38. Which codes can be modifiers be added to - indicate that a procedure has been altered in some way?
Anorexia
Perform quality control testing with every new kit and routinely thereafter.
decongestant
CPT
39. To cleanse the typical venipuncture site - begin at the intende site of the draw and....
Work in a circle to the periphery
antipyretic
Wrist
Hematocrit.
40. What office instrument is designed to receive and send printed documents via the telephone?
1 MINUTE
Fax machine
cut
Hepatitis B
41. Viruses can reproduce only in...
Abduction
Living cells
22
Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act
42. Broken glassware which may be contaminated shall not be picked up directly with the hands - but by mechanical means - such as......
Explanation of benefits
decubitus ulcers
A brush and dust pan
tinc
43. Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty is called...
Breach of duty
Thirds face up
Ears
Jugular
44. The vertebrae are located in the ...
14 to 20
Back
22
Shallow respiration
45. A doctor who agress to accept an insurance companies fee as the maximum amount to be collecte is called...
Security thermomether
Participating physician
Anorexia
Hypertension
46. An ECG tracing measures the amount of voltage and the .................it takes for the voltage to travel throughout the heart.
False imprisonment
Time
Paraplegia
Great toe
47. When you wash your hands you should stand.....
Malpractice
So your clothes do not touch the sink.
a septal defect
Three to four inches
48. Digestion begins in the mouth - where food is chewed and mixed with a substance called...
Saliva
Apical-radial pulse
Direction or shape
22
49. The word element ECTOMY means...
Surgical removal
Distance between patient and test chart
Medicaid
Third
50. The word element RHINO means...
nose
Never
Negative
hyper