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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. The word element PHLEBO means...






2. A record of debits -credits -and balances is referred to as a patient's...






3. All spills of blood-contaminated fluids should be promtly cleaned up using.............. approved germicide - or a 1:10 solution of household bleach.






4. The mandible bone is located in the






5. Oxygen is a administered to the patient by way of a ...............






6. Ventricular depolarizarion produces an electrical force or vector with 2 components(1) Magnitude of force - and 2-...






7. Low income patients can be covered by what type of insurance?






8. A notice of insurance claim or proff must be filed within a designated........... or it can be denied






9. Inflammation of the mucus lining of the vagina is called...






10. What is considered a normal adult pulse rate?






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






12. A system whereby large quantities of data can be accessed -searched -sorted -and arranged very rapidly by computer is called a............... system






13. The computer's directional arrow keys...






14. The fibula is located in the ...






15. The abbreviation for elixir is...






16. The sphenoid bone is located in the






17. The International Classification of Disease -9th revision - Clinical Modification(ICD-9-CM) is used to code...






18. The glucose tolerance test is a ...........-test






19. Which is recorded as the systolic blood pressure?






20. An accumulation of air in the pleural cavity after the lungs collapse is known as...






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






22. Permission granted by a person voluntarily and in his right mind is...






23. The lateral movement of the limbs away form the median plane of the body - is calle...






24. The electrode site should be...






25. When the patient kneels - and places his/her head and chest on the table with buttocks elevated - it is called the..... position.






26. What license must a physician have to dispense -prescribe -or administer controlled substances?






27. The name for the collar bone is...






28. The use of ultrasound to produce a picture of the structure of the heart is called...






29. A drug that causes dilation of blood vessels is called a...






30. The abbreviation for bedtime or hour of sleep is...






31. To netermine the size of the needle remember that the higher the gauge number the......... needle






32. A health care worker who unconsciously transports harmful bacteria but is not ill called a...






33. When the physician feels with fingers or hands to determine the physical characteristics oftissues or organs it is called...






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.






35. The ................ wave represents atrial depolarization...






36. The ability to see form another person's point of view is...






37. The abbreviation for electroencephalogram is...






38. Which codes can be modifiers be added to - indicate that a procedure has been altered in some way?






39. To cleanse the typical venipuncture site - begin at the intende site of the draw and....






40. What office instrument is designed to receive and send printed documents via the telephone?






41. Viruses can reproduce only in...






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






43. Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty is called...






44. The vertebrae are located in the ...






45. A doctor who agress to accept an insurance companies fee as the maximum amount to be collecte is called...






46. An ECG tracing measures the amount of voltage and the .................it takes for the voltage to travel throughout the heart.






47. When you wash your hands you should stand.....






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






49. The word element ECTOMY means...






50. The word element RHINO means...