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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 withdrawl of a physician form the care of a patient witout reasonable notice of such discharge form the case by the patient is...






2. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as....






3. The medical term for paralysis form the neck down is...






4. A 224-hr urine specimen should be...






5. The color coding for a stopper of a tube with no addictives is(for collection of serum)......






6. The medical term for goups of cells with the same function is...






7. The medical term for moving a body part away form the body is...






8. 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...






9. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as...






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






11. The medical abbreviation for by mouth is...






12. A drug that produces sleed is called a...






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






14. The abbreviation for toxic shock syndrome is...






15. Which of the following is not a criteria for skin preparation for lead placement?






16. Physicians with a narcotics license are required to register on June 30 of each year with...






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






18. The word element STOMATO means






19. The buccal method of administering a drug is done by ...






20. The muscle that flexes and supinates the forearm is called.....






21. An act that violates criminal law i called...






22. The risk of infection with HIV following one needle-stick exposure to blood form a patient known to be infected with HIV is approximately......






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






24. The term for the technology that tells a computer what to do is known as the ...






25. The word element CARDIO means...






26. An injury that prevens a worker form performing one or more of the regular functions of his job would be known as a...






27. A form of insurance paid by the employer providing cash benefitis to workers injured or disabled in the course of employment is called...

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






29. 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...






30. When anticoagulated blood is centrifuged...... goes to the bottom of the tube.






31. An nstrument called a centrifuge.....






32. The word element EMESIS means...






33. Inflammation of the nasal mucosa results in...






34. The medical term for the adnormal shortening of a muscle is...






35. The word element PHLEBO means...






36. hen using a centrifuge - make sure equal weights are...






37. The abbreviation for above or high is






38. The right ventricle pumps the used blood to the lungs by way of the ................... artery






39. With vital signs - any abnormal measurement must be inmediately reported to the...






40. When there is no variation or R-R intervals it is called...






41. The branch of study of moral issues -questions - and problems arising in the practice of medicine and in biomedical research is called...






42. One of the vital functions of long bones is the formation of...






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






44. The medical term for circular movement around a central point is...






45. One who Institutes a lawsuit is ...






46. An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patien's complaints about medical care or excessive is called a............. commitee






47. Information given by a patient to a medical personnel which cannot be disclosed witout consent of the person who gave it is...






48. A newsletter that wighs less than one pound would be considered.............. class mail.






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






50. Conduct -courtesy -and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are known as...