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A condition of insufficient blood-clotting cells is referred to as? ✔ Ans - Thrombocytopenia Which of the following is not located in the mediastinum? ✔ Ans - pancreas Which abdominal region lies just distal to the sternum? ✔ Ans - Epigastric Blood flows from the heart's right ventricle into the: ✔ Ans - Pulmonary arteries Word processing software may be used by a medical assistant to create which of the following? ✔ Ans - Transcriptions Calcium, potassium, and sodium are all classified as: ✔ Ans - Electrolytes Adipose tissue is made of: ✔ Ans - fat cells Which is the term for an abnormally low white blood cell count? ✔ Ans - Leukopenia Korotkoff sounds are evaluated when: ✔ Ans - determining blood pressure A cystoscope is most commonly used by a specialist in: ✔ Ans
- urology Instructions to take a medication "PC" means it should be taken after meals. true or false ✔ Ans - true A hematologist specializes in treating patients with diseases of the liver.
True or False ✔ Ans - false A 17 year old woman who is married arrives at the emergency department of a hospital with an injured arm. Who must consent to any treatment since this patient is a minor? ✔ Ans
- patient Which of the following would be used to indicate someone has taken a file from the file cabinet? ✔ Ans - outguide The pharmaceutical abbreviation "bid" means? ✔ Ans - twice a day Making a note in one file that a paper is in another file is called? ✔ Ans - cross-reference When collecting a urine sample, the appropriate volume of urine needed for lab testing is: ✔ Ans - 30-50 mL Reasons for urine turbidity include? ✔ Ans - Yeast Infection, Bacteria Growth, and Presence of crystals in the urine The normal pH of Urine is? ✔ Ans - 4.5-8. The finding of Protein in the urine might be a sign of? ✔ Ans
- pregnancy and renal failure Blood in the Urine could be a sign of? ✔ Ans - UTI The finding of nitrates in urine could be a sign of? ✔ Ans - nitrates are a normal finding in the urine Green or yellow foam found in urine may be indicative of? ✔ Ans - bilirubinuria A normal adult urine volume is between: ✔ Ans - 750- ml in a 24 hour period
The abbreviation ENT stands for? ✔ Ans - ear, nose, and throat Which part of the heart is considered the "Pace Maker"? ✔ Ans - SA node Tinnitis is best described as? ✔ Ans - ringing in the ear Hyperopia is a condition that describes: ✔ Ans - Farsightedness Rheumatoid Arthritis is best described as: ✔ Ans - Stiffness, Swelling and Pain in a joint due to an autoimmune disorder A bone break that splinters and cracks would best be described as a : ✔ Ans - greenstick fracture he hormone TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) is secreted by? ✔ Ans - Anterior Pituitary Gland Atherosclerosis is characterized by? ✔ Ans - fatty deposits in the blood vessels A normal oral temperature ranges between? ✔ Ans - 97.6- 99.6 F The best place to take a pulse on a Newborn is at the: ✔ Ans
- brachial pulse The P wave on an EKG monitor represents what? ✔ Ans - Depolarization of the Atrium Aseptic Techniques Include: ✔ Ans - Hand Washing, Sanitization, and Disinfection After calling for the doctor you begin assessing the patient's vital signs. His current pulse is 120 beats per minute, respiratory rate is at 26, and blood pressure is at 180/95, he is
alert and oriented. What is the next appropriate step? ✔ Ans
- treat the patient as an emergency and call 911 A partial degree burn is characterized by? ✔ Ans - blistering of the skin When performing CPR on an adult the correct rate of compression to ventilation set fourth by the American Heart Association is? ✔ Ans - 30: A wound in which the skin has been forcefully torn away is called? ✔ Ans - an avulsion common signs and symptoms of a stroke are: ✔ Ans - one sided weakness, incontinence, and inability to speak (LAW AND ETHICS) what is a tort? ✔ Ans - accidental/intentional wrongful act by someone against another/property. what is a common tort? ✔ Ans - negligence failure to act when duty indicated; results in injury to another is called? ✔ Ans - nonfeasance (form of negligence) improper performance of act; results in injury to another is called? ✔ Ans - misfeasance (form of negligence) committing improper (illegal) act; results in injury to another. ✔ Ans - malfeasance (form of negligence) failure to perform professional duties prudently, according to accepted standard of care is called? ✔ Ans - negligence professional misconduct, lack of skill, wrongful practice; results in injury to another is called? ✔ Ans - malpractice (professional negligence)
ADA stands for? ✔ Ans - Americans with Disabilities Act POL stands for? ✔ Ans - physician office laboratories Control Substance Act is initiated by who? ✔ Ans - DEA. Control substance act regulates narcotic/dangerous drugs when dispensed, prescribed, and administered due to potential abuse. HIPAA stands for? ✔ Ans - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; provides national guidelines for health care privacy protection by:
- New job, increased chance of health insurance coverage- continuous or new.
- Ensures privacy of all health and identification information.
- Patient shared information is just for: treatment, payment, medical office operations. what is Medical Practice Acts? ✔ Ans - each state's statutes that govern practice of medicine; education, licensing, and renewals, suspensions, and revocation of license. what does OSHA stand for? ✔ Ans - Occupational safety and Health Act; regulates employee safety from known hazards causing death/injury. what does MSDS stand for? ✔ Ans - material safety data sheets; on hazardous products at site. It is available to all employees. a dispute between parties is settled by the judgement by an uninvolved third-party person mutually selected by disputing parties is called what? ✔ Ans - arbitration touching a person without a legally justifiable reason or non- consensual that is considered to be harmful or offensive is called what? It is also an intentional tort. ✔ Ans - battery
commands an individual to appear in court with a patient's medical record or other pertinent documents for the court is called? ✔ Ans - subpoena duces tecum EMR stands for what? ✔ Ans - electronic medical records EHR stands for what? ✔ Ans - electronic health records false, malicious communication to a third party; works to damage a person's reputation is called? ✔ Ans - defamation action, like a lawsuit, is being brought against this party is called? ✔ Ans - defendant defamatory communication that is written is called? ✔ Ans - libel concern for ideas about right and wrong is called? ✔ Ans - moral party bringing the suit or claim to court is called? ✔ Ans - plaintiff defamatory communication that is verbal is called? ✔ Ans - slander care given by a sound and rational person in the same situation is called? ✔ Ans - standard of care every medical profession has a "code of ethics" ✔ Ans - render service with full respect for the dignity of humanity, respect confidential information obtained through employment, unless legally authorized. (TERM /A&P) toward the top of body? ✔ Ans - superior toward lower end of body? ✔ Ans - inferior
drawing an imaginary circle with with body part? ✔ Ans - circumduction; finger or arm movment send away from center? ✔ Ans - efferent; efferent nerves carry info away from CNS to muscles/glands. limb moves into a straight position? ✔ Ans - extension movement in which a limb is bent? ✔ Ans - flexion state of turning inward? ✔ Ans - inversion pointing toes downward? ✔ Ans - plantar flexion lying straight; face down? ✔ Ans - prone turning on an axis? ✔ Ans - rotation lying straight on one's back, face up? ✔ Ans - supine (PREFIXES) a, an ✔ Ans - without or absence of ab ✔ Ans - away ad, af, ap, as, at ✔ Ans - toward, in the direction of ana ✔ Ans - excessive bi ✔ Ans - two, life bin ✔ Ans - two by two brady ✔ Ans - slow dia ✔ Ans - through, complete dys ✔ Ans - bad, difficult, painful
endo ✔ Ans - within epi ✔ Ans - upon eti ✔ Ans - cause eu ✔ Ans - normal, good, well, easy ex, exo ✔ Ans - outside, outward hemi ✔ Ans - half hyper ✔ Ans - excessive increased hypo ✔ Ans - decreased, deficient inter ✔ Ans - between intra ✔ Ans - within, inside meta ✔ Ans - change, after, beyond neo ✔ Ans - new nulli ✔ Ans - none pan ✔ Ans - all, total para ✔ Ans - beside, around per ✔ Ans - through peri ✔ Ans - surrounding poly ✔ Ans - many post ✔ Ans - after
crit ✔ Ans - to seperate cyte ✔ Ans - cell desis ✔ Ans - surgical fixation, fusion drome ✔ Ans - run, running eal ✔ Ans - pertaining to ectasis ✔ Ans - stretching out, dilation, expansion ectomy ✔ Ans - surgical removal emia ✔ Ans - blood condition emesis ✔ Ans - vomiting gen ✔ Ans - agent that causes or produces genesis ✔ Ans - origin, cause genic ✔ Ans - producing, causing, originating gram ✔ Ans - an instrument for recording, picture, record graphy ✔ Ans - process of producing a picture ia ✔ Ans - diseased, abnormal condition iasis, esis ✔ Ans - condition iatry ✔ Ans - physician, treatment ical, ial, ic, ior ✔ Ans - pertaining to ictal ✔ Ans - seizure, attack itis ✔ Ans - inflammation
lysis ✔ Ans - loosening, dissolution, separating malacia ✔ Ans - abnormal softening megaly ✔ Ans - enlargement meter ✔ Ans - instrument used to measure metry ✔ Ans - measurement necrosis ✔ Ans - tissue death odynea ✔ Ans - pain oid ✔ Ans - resembling ologist ✔ Ans - specialist ology ✔ Ans - the study of oma ✔ Ans - tumor opia ✔ Ans - vision opsy ✔ Ans - to view ory, ose, ous ✔ Ans - pertaining to osis ✔ Ans - abnormal condition ostomy ✔ Ans - surgically created opening otomy ✔ Ans - surgical incision oxia ✔ Ans - oxygen paresis ✔ Ans - slight paralysis
tome ✔ Ans - instrument used to cut physis ✔ Ans - growth plasia ✔ Ans - formation plasm ✔ Ans - formative material of cells plasty ✔ Ans - surgical repair tripsy ✔ Ans - surgical crushing trophy ✔ Ans - development thorax ✔ Ans - chest uria ✔ Ans - urine, urination (COMMON ROOT WORDS) carcin ✔ Ans - cancer chrom ✔ Ans - color cyan ✔ Ans - blue cyt ✔ Ans - cell erythr ✔ Ans - red gno ✔ Ans - knowledge hist ✔ Ans - tissue kary ✔ Ans - nucleus lei ✔ Ans - smooth leuk ✔ Ans - white
lip ✔ Ans - fat melan ✔ Ans - black neur ✔ Ans - nerve onc ✔ Ans - tumor path ✔ Ans - disease rhabd ✔ Ans - rod-shaped or straited tissue sarc ✔ Ans - flesh, connective tissue somat ✔ Ans - body viscer ✔ Ans - internal organs xanth ✔ Ans - yellow body planes ✔ Ans - thoracic cavity contains? ✔ Ans - contains heart, lungs, large blood vessels abdominal cavity contains? ✔ Ans - contains stomach, most of intestines, kidneys, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen pelvic cavity contains? ✔ Ans - contains urinary bladder, rectum, reproductive organs nine regions of the abdominopelvic cavity ✔ Ans - equilibrium, maintaining a balance of the internal body is called? ✔ Ans - homeostasis the smallest chemical unit of matter is? ✔ Ans - atom
what is the largest, longest, and strongest bone in the body? ✔ Ans - femur what is the kneecap called? ✔ Ans - patella what is the name of the 2 bones found in the lower leg called? ✔ Ans - tibia which is the shinbone and fibula what is the name of toe, fingers, and thumb bones? ✔ Ans - phalanges what is the name of the breastbone? ✔ Ans - sternum what is the name of the ribcage? ✔ Ans - thorax a puncture to remove fluid for pressure pain relief or analysis is called? ✔ Ans - arthrocentesis joint viewing and surgical access is called? ✔ Ans - arthroscopy realigning of the bones is called? ✔ Ans - traction and reduction pressure on wrist median nerve is called? ✔ Ans - carpal tunnel (names of fractures 282-286) incomplete break in the bone is called? ✔ Ans - greenstick complete break, does not go through skin is called? ✔ Ans - simple complete break, and also goes through skin is called? ✔ Ans
- compound twisted break of bone is called? ✔ Ans - spiral
several fragments of crushed bone is called? ✔ Ans - comminuted pain usually affecting great toe area from uric acid build-up is called? ✔ Ans - gout hunchback; outward curve of the spine is called? ✔ Ans - kyphosis swayback; inward curve of the spine is called? ✔ Ans - lordosis inflammation of the joints is called? ✔ Ans - osteoarthritis softening of the bone is called? ✔ Ans - osteomalacia bone mass reduction is called? ✔ Ans - osteoporosis autoimmune, painful joint swelling resulting in deformities is called? ✔ Ans - rheumatoid arthritis lack of vitamin D is called? ✔ Ans - rickets lateral, sideward curve of the spine is called? ✔ Ans - scoliosis tearing of ligaments is called? ✔ Ans - sprain (word roots) cost ✔ Ans - rib arthro ✔ Ans - joint ankylo ✔ Ans - stiff, bent crooked chondro ✔ Ans - cartilage kinesi ✔ Ans - movement, motion
