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1. A patient with a rapid pulse has bradycardia. -- Answer ✔✔ False
2. Water soluble vitamins are A,D,E and K. -- Answer ✔✔ False
3. Carbon dioxide is a waste product of metabolism. -- Answer ✔✔ True.
4. Some states consider it legal for medical assistant to diagnose a condition and prescribe treatment. -- Answer ✔✔ False
5. It is illegal for a patient to be denied a copy of his chart if he is unable to pay the fee to obtain it. -- Answer ✔✔ True
6. A physician cannot be held responsible for the actions of employees. -- Answer ✔✔ False
7. A substance used to impart color to tissue or cells in order to study and identify microscopic organisms is called a stain. -- Answer ✔✔ True
8. 8.Another name for a heart attack is myocardial infarction. -- Answer ✔✔ True
9. A properly collected sputum specimen should contain both mucus coughed up from the respiratory tract and saliva. -- Answer ✔✔ False

10. The most reliable and timely method of transporting microbiologic specimens is pickup by the laboratory. -- Answer ✔✔ True
11. Hepat stands for root of kidney -- Answer ✔✔ False
12. A medical assistant needs additional training to be able to perform microbiologic tests, such as sensitivity tests, and to interpret cultures of specimens. -- Answer ✔✔ True
13. Viruses are found in soil. -- Answer ✔✔ True
14. The process of blood cells clumping together to form a clot is coagulation. -- Answer ✔✔ True
15. Water contributes about 60% of body weight. -- Answer ✔✔ True
16. The lowest level of organization for the human body begins at the chemical level. -- Answer ✔✔ True
17. The law requires all employers to withhold money from employees net earnings to pay federal, state, and local income taxes. -- Answer ✔✔ False
18. Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins are examples of compounds. -- Answer ✔✔ True
19. The optimal temperature to promote growth of bacteria in a culture medium is 37 degrees Celsius. -- Answer ✔✔ True
20. Bacteria that stain purple are gram positive. -- Answer ✔✔ True
21. The dorsal cavity is located in front of the body. ( POSTERIOR the back near spinal cord) -- Answer ✔✔ False

22. Neoplasms are new growths and are cancerous , non- cancerous. -- Answer ✔✔ True
23. The ventricles have one-way values at their entrances and exits so that blood goes in the proper direction as the heart pumps. -- Answer ✔✔ True
24. A living will is intended to help families of terminally ill patients deal with the inevitable outcome and limit unnecessary medical costs. -- Answer ✔✔ True
25. A co-payment is a fixed percentage of covered charges after the deductible is met. -- Answer ✔✔ False
26. All medical practices have to cover workers compensation cases. -- Answer ✔✔ False
27. The study of all factors that cause disease is known as Etiology. -- Answer ✔✔ True
28. A check from an insurance company includes payment for only one patient. -- Answer ✔✔ False
29. Calcium in milk can diminish the absorption of some antibiotics. -- Answer ✔✔ True
30. Compounded interest is paid on the initial investment and on the interest earned on the investment. -- Answer ✔✔ True
31. An employer must pay FUTA tax if employees’ wages total more than $1500 in any quarter. -- Answer ✔✔ True
32. Vesting means that you have a legal right to all the money in your account. -- Answer ✔✔ True
33. Trichinella spiralis is a roundworm that enters the body in infected meat eaten raw or undercooked. -- Answer ✔✔ True

34. In a medical practice, accounts receivable describes the money that is paid out to run the practice. -- Answer ✔✔ False payments made by a patient represent the doctors is ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
35. A customary fee is the fee a doctor charges for a service or procedure. -- Answer ✔✔ False
36. The physician usually authorizes several people to handle the purchasing of supplies and other products. -- Answer ✔✔ False
37. Infarction is an area of dead tissue caused by an invasion of bacteria or loss of blood supply. -- Answer ✔✔ False ( HEART ATTACK)
38. The percentage the employer pays for federal unemployment taxes decreases if the employer also pays state unemployment taxes. -- Answer ✔✔ True
39. Untreated strep throat is not serious and does not lead to complications. -- Answer ✔✔ False
40. Metabolism is the sum of all cellular processes that build, maintain and supply energy to living tissue. -- Answer ✔✔ True
41. The daily recommended allowance for fat in the adult diet is 50% to 60%. -- Answer ✔✔ False
42. The typical American diet contains 2 to 5 g sodium daily. -- Answer ✔✔ True
43. Most fungi do not cause disease in humans. -- Answer ✔✔ True

44. Encephala means neck. (MEANS THE BRAIN) -- Answer ✔✔ False
45. Cyst means bladder. -- Answer ✔✔ True
46. CEPHALAGIA -- Answer ✔✔ The medical term for HEADACHE.
47. PYREXIA -- Answer ✔✔ FEVER
48. HYPERPLASIA -- Answer ✔✔ Excessive tissue
49. HYPOGLYCEMIA -- Answer ✔✔ Low blood sugar
50. VARIOLA -- Answer ✔✔ Smallpox
51. ARTHRO -- Answer ✔✔ Joints
52. CYTOLOGIST -- Answer ✔✔ One who studies cells
53. THORACOTOMY -- Answer ✔✔ Incision into the chest
54. HYPODERMIC -- Answer ✔✔ Underneath skin
55. ATRIOMEGALY -- Answer ✔✔ Enlargement of the atrium of the hearts.
56. CARDIAC CYCLE -- Answer ✔✔ One complete heartbeat, combining the contraction and relaxation phases.
57. RESECTION -- Answer ✔✔ Cutting or removal of a portion of.
58. HYPODERMIC -- Answer ✔✔ Another term for subcutaneous injection.

59. ASSAULT & BATTERY -- Answer ✔✔ In performing a treatment without the patients informed consent, the physician runs the risk of a suit for.
60. STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR MALPRACTICE SUITS VARIES -- Answer ✔✔ ONE YEAR
61. SUBPOENA -- Answer ✔✔ A court order for a physician to appear and testify.
62. Criminal Offense -- Answer ✔✔ For anyone to practice medicine with a license.
63. MALPRACTICE -- Answer ✔✔ Negligence in medical profession.
64. RESPONDENT SUPERIOR -- Answer ✔✔ An employee who is considered to be acting on the doctors behalf while performing professional tasks.
65. PHYSICIANS PUBLIC DUTY -- Answer ✔✔ A physician reports a case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) to the state.
66. 18 years -- Answer ✔✔ The age of majority in the most jurisdictions.
67. ETHICS -- Answer ✔✔ The study of values or principles governing personal relationships, including ideals of autonomy, justice, and conduct.
68. AVERAGE NUMBER FOUND IN TEN FIELDS -- Answer ✔✔ When performing a microscopic, the evaluation of each element present in the urinary sediment is based upon the.
69. 10,000 -- Answer ✔✔ When doing a red cell count, factor by which the cells counted are multiplied.

70. 10x -- Answer ✔✔ When focusing the microscope, one should begin with which objective?
71. OBSERVING THE COLOR & CHARACTER -- Answer ✔✔ The macroscopic examination of urine consists of?
72. 20 or 21 gauge -- Answer ✔✔ The appropriate gauge needle to use when performing phlebotomy of veins in the forearm.
73. 50 -- Answer ✔✔ When using a standard white blood cell pipette for determining a white blood cell count, the total number of cells counted is multiple by.
74. Gram Stain -- Answer ✔✔ The most common bacteriology stain.
75. PA and LATERAL -- Answer ✔✔ THE MOST COMMON POSITION FOR CHEST X-RAYS ARE.
76. WHETHER A BACTERIA IS GRAM POSITIVE OR GRAM NEGATIVE -- Answer ✔✔ GRAM STAINING IS DONE TO DETERMINE
77. Q WAVE -- Answer ✔✔ ON A NORMAL ECG TRACING, THE FIRST WAVE TO SHOW DOWNWARD DEFLECTION.
78. SYSTOLIC PRESSURE -- Answer ✔✔ THE FIRST SOUND HEARD WHEN TAKING BLOOD PRESSURE
79. NORMAL ORAL TEMPERATURE IS 98.6 F. THE EQUIVALENT CELSIUS TEMPERATURE -- Answer ✔✔ 37.0 c degree
80. ULTRASOUND WAVES ARE DISRUPTED BY -- Answer ✔✔ air and gas
81. ULTRASOUND IS COMMONLY -- Answer ✔✔ GIVEN WITH ELECTRICAL STIMULATION

82. MONOCYTES -- Answer ✔✔ THE LARGEST WHITE BLOOD CELLS ARE
83. 19 GAUGE -- Answer ✔✔ WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING NEEDLES HAS THE WIDEST LUMEN.
84. SUBCUTANEOUS -- Answer ✔✔ AN INJECTION INTO THE TISSUE BETWEEN THE SKIN AND MUSCLE.
85. EPITHELIUM -- Answer ✔✔ THE LAYER OF CELLS FORMING THE EPIDERMIS OF THE SKIN & THE SURFACE LAYER OF MUCOUS & SEROUS MEMBRANES.
86. MELANOCYTES -- Answer ✔✔ The epidermis contains
87. STRATA -- Answer ✔✔ Several layers
88. AFFERENT NEURONS -- Answer ✔✔ Neurons that carry impulses toward the brain or spinal cord.
89. DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID (DNA) -- Answer ✔✔ A large molecule which is the main constituent of chromosomes is referred to as deoxyribonucleic.
90. OXYHEMOGLOBIN -- Answer ✔✔ Red blood cells appear red due to the presence of.
91. SYMPATHETIC & PARASYMPATHETIC NERVES -- Answer ✔✔ The heartbeat is normally regulated by the.
92. The median or sagittal plane divides the body -- Answer ✔✔ Into left and right
93. PRONE POSITION -- Answer ✔✔ Face down

94. SUPINE POSITION -- Answer ✔✔ Flat on their back with palms and face up.
95. PROXIMAL -- Answer ✔✔ Is the opposite of distal.
96. CORONAL -- Answer ✔✔ The body is divided into front and back.
97. DORSAL -- Answer ✔✔ The opposite of ventral.
98. PROXIMAL -- Answer ✔✔ The opposite of distal.
99. The number of bones in the body. -- Answer ✔✔ 206
100. FEMUR -- Answer ✔✔ The longest bone in the body.
101. Tissue are composed of. -- Answer ✔✔ Cells
102. TRICUSPID VALVE -- Answer ✔✔ The valve located on the right side of the heart.
103. SEMICIRCULAR CANALS -- Answer ✔✔ Canals in the inner ear that affect equilibrium.
104. MEDIASTINUM -- Answer ✔✔ The area between the lungs that contain the heart, trachea, esophagus, and thymus gland.
105. OSTEOCLASIA -- Answer ✔✔ The surgical breaking of bones.
106. NEURALGIA -- Answer ✔✔ Pain over the course of a nerve.
107. DIGITOXIN & QUININE -- Answer ✔✔ Which of the following are examples of plant-derived drugs?
108. THYROID HORMONE & INSULIN -- Answer ✔✔ Which of the following are drugs derived from animal substances.

109. POTASSIUM CHLORIDE -- Answer ✔✔ Which drugs is derived from a mineral source?
110. qid -- Answer ✔✔ The abbreviation used to indicate that a medication should be given four times a day.
111. Q.H. -- Answer ✔✔ The abbreviation for EVERY HOUR is.
112. ABSORPTION -- Answer ✔✔ Is the process of converting a drug from its dose form, such as a tablet or capsule, into a form the body can use.
113. METABOLISM -- Answer ✔✔ The process by which drug molecules are transformed into simpler products.
114. GENERIC NAME -- Answer ✔✔ The following is considered a drugs official name.
115. INSCRIPTION -- Answer ✔✔ Which part of a prescription includes the name of the drug and the amount?
116. TRANSCRIPTION -- Answer ✔✔ Which part of the prescription contains the patients instructions?
117. What would you do to secure the handling of prescription pads? -- Answer ✔✔ Suggest that the physician write prescribed amounts of medication in both numerals and words.
118. The action of antihypertensive drugs is to? -- Answer ✔✔ Reduce blood pressure
119. T.I.D -- Answer ✔✔ 3 times a day
120. P.R.N -- Answer ✔✔ As needed
121. LMP -- Answer ✔✔ Last Menstrual period

122. O.D. -- Answer ✔✔ Right Eye
123. H.C.T -- Answer ✔✔ Hematocrit
124. C.A. -- Answer ✔✔ Carcinoma
125. Q.O.D -- Answer ✔✔ Every other day
126. Mcg. -- Answer ✔✔ Microgram
127. When performing a finger puncture, the first drop of blood should be. -- Answer ✔✔ Wiped away
128. The packed red blood cell volume is determined by. -- Answer ✔✔ Performing a hematocrit
129. When using WHITE BLOOD CELL count, the TOTAL number of cells counted is. -- Answer ✔✔ 100
130. The time the film is allowed to remain in the fix solution is. -- Answer ✔✔ Twice as long as the developing time
131. The most common place to take a pulse is at the. -- Answer ✔✔ Radial Artery
132. When applying a cast the plaster. -- Answer ✔✔ Is applied over a stockinette
133. If a carotid pulse was taken, it was taken at the -- Answer ✔✔ Neck
134. Palpitation is done by. -- Answer ✔✔ Feeling a part with the hand
135. A patient is bleeding heavily from a wound on the forearm, you should. -- Answer ✔✔ Apply direct pressure

136. The normal pulse rate for children from 1 to 7 years of age is. -- Answer ✔✔ 80 to 120
137. The normal pulse rate for children OVER the age of 7 is. -- Answer ✔✔ 80 to 90
138. The normal pulse rate for adults is. -- Answer ✔✔ 60 to 80
139. The process of measuring as done in chest expansion is called. -- Answer ✔✔ MENSURATION
140. The medication for injections should be verified at least. -- Answer ✔✔ Three times
141. The appropriate way to dispose of a syringe and needle after giving an injection is to. -- Answer ✔✔ Dispose in leak proof, puncture resistant container.
142. The most common exposure incident a medical worker may encounter is. -- Answer ✔✔ Accidentally sticking oneself with a used needle
143. The first modern health insurance became an employment benefit because. -- Answer ✔✔ A group of school teachers in Dallas Tx joined forces and requested it
144. Law of probability -- Answer ✔✔ The underlying principle of all types of insurance is.
145. Medicaid -- Answer ✔✔ A program of medical care for the needy provided by the title XIX of social Security Amendments of 1965
146. Group Coverage -- Answer ✔✔ An insurance contract written for a company for its employees.

147. Persons who are unable to pay for medical care or who have dependent children, may have. -- Answer ✔✔ Medicaid
148. DEDUCTIBLE -- Answer ✔✔ A fixed dollar amount the subscriber must pay or meet.
149. In a typical medical practice, insurance claims are filed. -- Answer ✔✔ 7 to 10 business days from the date of service
150. Accounts Receivable -- Answer ✔✔ Payments made by a patient represent the doctors.
151. Dollar entries made on the left side of the ledger are. -- Answer ✔✔ Debits
152. Any check received for the doctor should be immediately. -- Answer ✔✔ Given a restrictive endorsement
153. A patients financial account is referred to as. -- Answer ✔✔ Ledger or ledger card
154. One way to prevent patients from forgetting future appointments is. -- Answer ✔✔ Call day before appointment, use appointment cards, don't book more than two weeks in advance
155. The three main groups of carbohydrates. -- Answer ✔✔ Monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides
156. An inadequate supply of essential nutrients in the diet may result in. -- Answer ✔✔ Malnutrition
157. Comprises about 60% of the body's weight. -- Answer ✔✔ Water
158. Blindness can result from a severe lack of -- Answer ✔✔ Vitamin A

159. The vitamin that is necessary for proper clotting of blood is. -- Answer ✔✔ Vitamin K
160. Good source of vitamin C are -- Answer ✔✔ Citrus Fruits
161. A microorganisms is a -- Answer ✔✔ Tiny animal or plant
162. A typical of a food allergy is -- Answer ✔✔ Hives
163. Iron is known to be necessary component of. -- Answer ✔✔ Hemoglobin
164. Fat-Soluble vitamins -- Answer ✔✔ Are slower than water- soluble vitamins to exhibit deficiencies.
165. The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 C is a. -- Answer ✔✔ Calorie
166. Most essential nutrient for building and repairing cells and tissue. -- Answer ✔✔ Protein
167. Each gram of ...... contains four calories. -- Answer ✔✔ Protein
168. It is recommended that what percentage of an individual’s total fail caloric intake be made up of carbohydrates? -- Answer ✔✔ 50-60%
169. Which of the following are used for immediate fuel and are converted to glucose? -- Answer ✔✔ Carbohydrates
170. After the body's carbohydrates reserves are depleted, which of the following does the body burn? -- Answer ✔✔ Lipids
171. Which of the following is the daily recommendation of fiber for adults? -- Answer ✔✔ 20 to 30 mg

172. The recommended daily adult cholesterol intake is no more than. -- Answer ✔✔ 300 mg
173. Which of the following are saturated fats? -- Answer ✔✔ Coconut and a Palm Oil
174. The most important nutrient that is essential for the production of red blood cells is. -- Answer ✔✔ Iron
175. Which vitamin is an intracellular antioxidant, maintains cell structures , and aids the formation of red blood cells? -- Answer ✔✔ Vitamin E
176. Which vitamin builds bones and teeth, is found in egg yolks, butter, and fortified milk? -- Answer ✔✔ Vitamin D
177. Vitamin.... is rich in citrus fruits, mangoes, strawberries, and green leafy vegetables. -- Answer ✔✔ Vitamin C
178. The following maintains fluid and acid-base balance and its main dietary source is salt? -- Answer ✔✔ Sodium
179. Which of the following is important in the maintenance of muscle contraction and is found in foods such as bananas, raisins, oranges, and potatoes? -- Answer ✔✔ Potassium
180. A condition in which the heart is unable to pump adequate amounts of blood to the tissues and organs is. -- Answer ✔✔ Cardiac Failure
181. A quick rising and collapsing (water hammer) pulse is characteristic of. -- Answer ✔✔ Aortic Regurgitation
182. Diabetes mellitus is a disease that involves the. -- Answer ✔✔ Pancreas
183. Carcinoma -- Answer ✔✔ A malignant tumor.

184. Hypertension -- Answer ✔✔ High blood pressure
185. Erthrocytosis -- Answer ✔✔ An abnormal increase in red cells.
186. Pathologist -- Answer ✔✔ One who studies disease.
187. Osteoarthritis -- Answer ✔✔ Inflammation of the joint and bone.
188. Sternum -- Answer ✔✔ A lift or heavy is the rise with each heartbeat.
189. Hypertension in the adult is defined as blood pressure greater than -- Answer ✔✔ 140/90mmH
190. An inflammation of the skin usually causing itching and sometimes accompanied by scaling or blisters is. -- Answer ✔✔ ECZEMA
191. Which of the following may precipitate individual attacks of asthma? -- Answer ✔✔ Volatile irritants from organic solvents, exposure to mists and dusts in individual plants, inhalation of cold air.
192. Anemia -- Answer ✔✔ A condition indicating that certain elements are lacking in the blood.
193. OSTEOPOROSIS -- Answer ✔✔ A metabolic bone disorder affecting primarily postmenopausal women and is characterized by the loss of calcium and phosphate from the bone.
194. RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS -- Answer ✔✔ What chronic inflammatory disease attacks joints and surrounding tissues, and is intermittent with periods of remission?

195. IMPETIGO -- Answer ✔✔ What contagious, superficial skin infection is usually seen in young children?
196. DIABETES MELLITUS -- Answer ✔✔ A chronic disease of insulin deficiency or resistance is.
197. RENAL FAILURE -- Answer ✔✔ A critical illness resulting in the sudden cessation of kidney function is.
198. SICKLE CELL -- Answer ✔✔ Congenital anemia occurs primarily in African Americans and about one in ten carry the abnormal gene called.
199. The most potent stimulus to increasing coronary blood flow is called. -- Answer ✔✔ LOCAL MYOCARDIAL HYPOXIA
200. PATHOGENIC -- Answer ✔✔ The term for disease producing.