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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. When doing a venipuncture th syringe or tube should be ....... the venipuncture site to prevent back-flow.






2. An amount the insures must pay before policy benefits begin is called...






3. The process by which an object or area becomes unclean is ....






4. An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some definite thing is ...






5. Certain types of cultures -such as deep wound cultures could contain anaerobic pathogens. which of the following conditions is required for their growth?






6. A legal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death is...






7. The Tri-Care fiscal year is form...






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






9. A fraudulent signature is called...






10. The smaller of the lower leg bones is called...






11. The brain -nerves -and spinal cord are in the ........ system






12. Arterioles are smallest type of...






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






14. The medical term for the time when menstruation begins is...






15. That which in natural and continous sequence -unbroken by any new independent cause - produces an event - and without wich the injury would not have occurred is called...






16. The patella is located in the...






17. The clean-catch urine specmen is also called.....






18. A recap sheet that accompanies a Medicare or Medicaid check - showing breakdown and explanation of payment on a claim is called...






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






20. A medical Assistant would measure the patient's temperature -pulse - and respiration when the physician asks him or her to...






21. Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a third party may result in...






22. The combination of sensors or electrodes used for lead # 1 is...






23. Digestion begins in the mouth - where food is chewed and mixed with a substance called...






24. The major vein that drains the pelvis is called the ...






25. The wind pipe which conducts air between the larynx and lungs is called the...






26. Whoping cough is another name for...






27. What is considered a normal adult pulse rate?






28. ........................ values are increased in infections and inflammatory disease.






29. A major crime for which greater punishment is imposed other than a misdemeanor is...






30. The major artery that supplies the kidney is called the.......... artery






31. An incoming call should be answered by the ..... ring.






32. How many hematocrit tubes should be collected form the patient?






33. The word element EMESIS means...






34. The medical term for paralysis form the waist down is...






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






36. When you pull the second slide apart form the first slide -let them...






37. Failure to achieve an agreed upon result -even when the highest degree of skill has been used - is called...






38. The word element SUPER means...






39. The process of changing words into numbers so that computers can be in processing insurance claims is called...






40. The word element POST means...






41. Branches of the bundle branches - which transmit the impluses to the walls of the ventricles - causing the ventricles to the contract are called...






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






43. When anticoagulated blood is centrifuged....... goes to the tope of the tube.






44. Parcel post or......... class mail is used for bound printed matter -film - & sound recordings.






45. After they are used -disposable syringes and needles -scalpel blades - and other sharp items should be placed in ................... containers for disposal.






46. Contaminated laundryy shall be........ where it was soiled.






47. The vertebrae are located in the ...






48. When using a fire extinguisher the hose should be directly to the...






49. The ulna is located in the ....






50. During a venipuncture - to secure the needle during insertion into the tube stopper - you need a .......