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Medical Assistant Certification Exam
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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...
Deviated septum
Keto-diastix
Abandonment
Unethical
2. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as....
Indemnities
Jejenum
The medical hand wash
Veins pulsate
3. The medical term for paralysis form the neck down is...
Expert testimony
Orange-red
Non-verbal communication
Quadriplegia
4. A 224-hr urine specimen should be...
Hypo
chilled/refrigerated
Rotation
At the left hand margin
5. The color coding for a stopper of a tube with no addictives is(for collection of serum)......
Gingivitis
decubitus ulcers
Heart
Red
6. The medical term for goups of cells with the same function is...
Wipe away
Dorsiflexion
Current procedural terminology
Tissue
7. The medical term for moving a body part away form the body is...
Abduction
Red Blood Cells
Software
Hypogastric region
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...
14 to 20
Proximate cause
Malpractice
Red
9. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as...
At the left hand margin
Indenmities
d/c
Menarche
10. A health care worker who unconsciously transports harmful bacteria but is not ill called a...
Third
contamination
Occupational exposure
Carrier
11. The medical abbreviation for by mouth is...
Felony
0.20 sec
po
kidney
12. A drug that produces sleed is called a...
Hypnotic
Tissue
Dorsal recumbent
Timed
13. The process of changing words into numbers so that computers can be in processing insurance claims is called...
Coding
Outpatient
Law
Atrophy
14. The abbreviation for toxic shock syndrome is...
Sensitivity
Malpractice
TSS
Absence of oxygen
15. Which of the following is not a criteria for skin preparation for lead placement?
Ethics
emul
Make sure the skin is damp when applying the electrode
Pain
16. Physicians with a narcotics license are required to register on June 30 of each year with...
Indenmities
Drug Enforcement Agency
Hepatic
Breach of duty
17. While ordering procedures may vay -generallly a type a tepe and RH are ordered on all pregnant women.
Hospital Benefits
Third
Prenatal
Security thermomether
18. The word element STOMATO means
Mouth or the ostium uteri
Short
Cirrhosis
CC
19. The buccal method of administering a drug is done by ...
Hospital Benefits
decongestant
Placing the medication between the gum and the check
Orange-red
20. The muscle that flexes and supinates the forearm is called.....
Biceps brachii
Defamation
mydriatic
inflammation
21. An act that violates criminal law i called...
So your clothes do not touch the sink.
Crime
On top
Nervous
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......
Dilate
Fraud
pneumothorax
0.50%
23. A medical Assistant would measure the patient's temperature -pulse - and respiration when the physician asks him or her to...
An infection
Brachial
Orange-red
Take vital signs
24. The term for the technology that tells a computer what to do is known as the ...
Colitis
Software
New growth
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.
25. The word element CARDIO means...
Negligence
TPR
Heart
Battery
26. An injury that prevens a worker form performing one or more of the regular functions of his job would be known as a...
Lavander top -ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid additive
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Partial disability
Gland
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?
Premium
Air -lungs
Dark and warm
Fee-for-service
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...
Skull
auxillary
Ears
Grace period
30. When anticoagulated blood is centrifuged...... goes to the bottom of the tube.
Red Blood Cells
punkinje fibers
Hematocrit.
decongestant
31. An nstrument called a centrifuge.....
Take vital signs
Separates the cellular and liquid portion of the blood
0.20 sec
Major medical
32. The word element EMESIS means...
Orange-red
Vasodilator
Co-payment
Vomiting
33. Inflammation of the nasal mucosa results in...
Medical etiquette
Physiology
Rhinitis
arteries
34. The medical term for the adnormal shortening of a muscle is...
Contracture
CPT
Explanation of benefits
emul
35. The word element PHLEBO means...
Insurance agent
vein
Osteology
Hematocrit.
36. hen using a centrifuge - make sure equal weights are...
Seven
Not use alcohol to clean the site
Opposite each other
Brachial
37. The abbreviation for above or high is
Skin preparation
Capillary
1 to 2 minutes
hyper
38. The right ventricle pumps the used blood to the lungs by way of the ................... artery
Pulmonay
Back
hemiplegia
Time
39. With vital signs - any abnormal measurement must be inmediately reported to the...
Doctor
Assault
Intervals
Pulmonay
40. When there is no variation or R-R intervals it is called...
Absolute regular
Take all complaints seriously and ake through notes
urinary
Vaginitis
41. The branch of study of moral issues -questions - and problems arising in the practice of medicine and in biomedical research is called...
Litigation
supp
Sterilization
Brachial
42. One of the vital functions of long bones is the formation of...
Doctor
Percussion
Red blood cells
Invasion of privacy
43. An accumulation of air in the pleural cavity after the lungs collapse is known as...
inflammation
bedsore
pneumothorax
Glucose tolerance test
44. The medical term for circular movement around a central point is...
Rotation
1 to 2 minutes
hr or h
kidney
45. One who Institutes a lawsuit is ...
Jugular
Plaintiff
Transdermal System
Clean -smooth - and dry
46. An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patien's complaints about medical care or excessive is called a............. commitee
Contracture
Medical grievance
Ectopic
emul
47. Information given by a patient to a medical personnel which cannot be disclosed witout consent of the person who gave it is...
Ophthalmoscope
Privileged communication
Surgical removal
Assault
48. A newsletter that wighs less than one pound would be considered.............. class mail.
Third
Show respect for thei culture
a paper towel
Muscular
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...
Assault
Res ipsa loquitur
W-4
Positively identifying the patient
50. Conduct -courtesy -and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are known as...
Great toe
Hepatic
Medical etiquette
Leg