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Minor Surgery
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health-sciences
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surgery
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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. Bringing together skin or wound edges
INFILTRATION
LACERATION
SURGICAL ASEPSIS
APPROXIMATION
2. Blood clot
PUNCTURE WOUND
COAGULUM
IODOFORM GAUZE
ACUTE
3. Soiled through contact with nonsterile materials
POLYPS
CONTUSION
SCLEROSTOMY
COMTAMINATION
4. Any infectious agent that produces pathogenic effects
CONTUSION
VIRULENT
RESIDENT BACTERIA
MICROORGANISMS
5. Having a rapid onset and severe symptoms - usually subsiding within a relatively short period of time
ACUTE
CURETTAGE
LESION
PATHOGENS
6. A definite pathologic process having a descriptive set of signs and symptoms
DISEASE
CAUSTIC
SCLEROSTOMY
POLYPS
7. Wound with neat - clean edges
INCISION
BIOPSY
TOXIN
LESION
8. Sac of fluid or semisolid material located in or under the skin
INFECTION
STERILE FIELD
SUPPURATION
CYST
9. Aseptic cleaning aftert use in the body
ABSCESS
NEEDLE HOLDERS
MEDICAL ASEPSIS
HEMATOMA
10. Bruise
CONTUSION
SEBACEOUS CYST
TRANSIENT BACTERIA
PERMEABLE
11. Able to be passed or soaked through
ANTISEPTIC
COAGULUM
DISINFECTION
PERMEABLE
12. Unaffected person who can transmit infection to another person
HEMATOMA
SUPPURATION
LIDOCAINE
CARRIER
13. Instruments used to place sutures in the body
NEEDLE HOLDERS
PUNCTURE WOUND
ETHYL CHLORIDE
COMTAMINATION
14. A poisonous substance produced by pathogenic bacteria
TRANSIENT BACTERIA
ABRASION
TOXIN
SANITIZATION
15. Surgical stitch that must be removed from the body
NONABSORBABLE SUTURE
LIDOCAINE
INFECTION
CHRONIC
16. Formation of an opening into the sclera
SCLEROSTOMY
AVULSION
STERILIZATION
FURUNCLE
17. Slender strips of gauze covered with iodine; used as a wick to drain infection
BIOPSY
CYST
IODOFORM GAUZE
ABSORBABLE SUTURE
18. Surface bacteria that are introduced by fomites and remain with you for a short time
PERMEABLE
ACUTE
PATHOGENS
TRANSIENT BACTERIA
19. Abnormal - tube-like passage within the body tissues
SURGICAL ASEPSIS
MEDICAL ASEPSIS
ABSORBABLE SUTURE
FISTULA
20. Microscopic living organisms
MICROORGANISMS
FISTULA
AVULSION
BACTERIOCIDE
21. Instruments with teeth - used to grasp tissue
TISSUE FORCEPS
LACERATION
DISINFECTION
VIRULENT
22. Tissue forcibly torn away or seperated from the body
AVULSION
LITTAUER SUTURE SCISSORS
HEMOSTAT
NONABSORBABLE SUTURE
23. Producing of purulent material
DISEASE
SUPPURATION
TOXIN
LITTAUER SUTURE SCISSORS
24. Wound made from the piercing of the skin with a pointed object
INCISION
STERILE FIELD
PUNCTURE WOUND
SANITIZATION
25. Tumors frequently found in mucous membranes
POLYPS
ABSCESS
STERILIZATION
CONTUSION
26. Substance that renders microorganisms harmless
LIDOCAINE
FISTULA
ANTISEPTIC
CHRONIC
27. Medication which produces a loss of sensation in a localized area
SURGICAL ASEPSIS
PERMEABLE
LOCAL ANESTHETIC
IODOFORM GAUZE
28. Substance that burns or destroys organic tissue
CAUSTIC
MEDICAL ASEPSIS
LOCAL ANESTHETIC
COMTAMINATION
29. Sterilization before use in the body
PUNCTURE WOUND
SURGICAL ASEPSIS
CURETTAGE
ANTISEPTIC
30. Reducing the number of microorganisms to a safe level
ACUTE
LACERATION
SANITIZATION
STERILE FIELD
31. Surgical removal of damaged - diseased or contaminated tissue
SANITIZATION
DISEASE
DEBRIDEMENT
STERILE FIELD
32. Any surface containing sterile items
VECTOR
STERILE FIELD
DEBRIDEMENT
SUPPURATION
33. Flushing of a cavity or wound with a solution
IRRIGATION
SANITIZATION
POLYPS
NONABSORBABLE SUTURE
34. Boil
INFILTRATION
TISSUE FORCEPS
BACTERIOCIDE
FURUNCLE
35. Instrument used to clamp blood vessels
PERMEABLE
HEMATOMA
HEMOSTAT
TOXIN
36. Disease producing microorganisms
TOXIN
STERILE FIELD
PATHOGENS
GENERAL ANESTHETIC
37. A thick walled cell formed within bacteria; capable of releasing a toxin
BIOPSY
TOXIN
ABSORBABLE SUTURE
SPORE
38. Topical anesthetic
ETHYL CHLORIDE
DISEASE
CURETTAGE
SANITIZATION
39. Wound - sore - ulcer - tumor - or any tramatic tissue damage that causes a lack of tissue continuity or loss of function
INFILTRATION
RESIDENT BACTERIA
LESION
CURETTAGE
40. Sugical stitch that is left in the body; will absorb
ASEPSIS
TISSUE FORCEPS
SPORE
ABSORBABLE SUTURE
41. Absence of contaminated materials
SCLEROSTOMY
SEBACEOUS CYST
ASEPSIS
LOCAL ANESTHETIC
42. Persisting for a long period of time
SEBACEOUS CYST
MEDICAL ASEPSIS
ABSORBABLE SUTURE
CHRONIC
43. Rubbing or scraping of the skin or mucous membranes
ANTISEPTIC
ABRASION
PATHOGENS
APPROXIMATION
44. Inanimate object
DISINFECTION
FOMITE
SUPPURATION
CAUSTIC
45. Scraping a body cavity with a curette
BIOPSY
STERILIZATION
ACUTE
CURETTAGE
46. Medication given to a patient to produce unconsciousness
GENERAL ANESTHETIC
APPROXIMATION
COMTAMINATION
LACERATION
47. Scissors used to remove sutures
CAUSTIC
TISSUE FORCEPS
INFECTION
LITTAUER SUTURE SCISSORS
48. Bacteria found under the fingernails - in hair follicles - and in the opening of sebaceous glands - and in the deeper layers of the skin
RESIDENT BACTERIA
ABSCESS
INCISION
ETHYL CHLORIDE
49. Local anesthetic
VECTOR
PUNCTURE WOUND
SEBACEOUS CYST
LIDOCAINE
50. Localized collection of pus that may be located under the skin or deep within the body
SURGICAL ASEPSIS
ABSCESS
LITTAUER SUTURE SCISSORS
SPORE