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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 suffix -emia means...






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






3. The tube to collect whole blood with an additive in it has a ....... stopper






4. Tendons -joints -bones - and cartilages are in the......... system






5. Failure to do something hat a reasonable person would do under ordinary circumstances that ends up causing harm to another person or a person's property is...






6. Which one of the following items is not needed when taking a routine phone message?

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






8. The second portion of the small intestine is called the...






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






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






11. Inflammation of the gallbladder is called...






12. The instrument used to examine the eyes is called the...






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






14. When a vector travels away form the positive electrode - a ........... deflectio results...






15. A......... report includes information relating to the patien's main reason for scheduling an appointment to see the physician.






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






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






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






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






20. The patella is located in the...






21. The abbreviation for Papanicolaou smear iss...






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






23. An unexpected event which may cause injury is called...






24. A drug used to relieve a cough is called an...






25. Painful voiding is called...






26. When testing for occult blood which of the following speciments would be required?






27. What type of blood sample is needed when performing a PKU?






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






30. What licence must a physician have to dispense -precribe or administer controlled substances?






31. A violations of a person's right not to have his or her name -photograph -or private affairs exposed od made public without consent is...






32. The ................ wave represents atrial depolarization...






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






34. When performing a venipuncture - if you have the patient...... the veins will become more prominent.






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






36. Washing out the stomach through a nasogastric tube is called...






37. When performing any CLIA waived test it is important do to which one of the following?






38. Studies suggest that the potential for salivary transmission of HIV is.....






39. A drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate is called a...






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






41. The medical term for a decrease in size or wasting is...






42. 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...






43. The cephalic - medial cubital -and basilic veins are..................... used for venipuncture.






44. Listening to the sounds produced while tapping the patient with fingers is called...






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






46. The vertebrae are located in the ...






47. The medical term for the basic unit of body structute is...






48. The abbreviation for urinalysis is...






49. Concerning ECG's for irregular rhythms - any method or rate calculation that depends on intervals between complex is.............






50. A sum of money provided in an insurance policy -payable for covered services is called...