OSMT Test Prep with comprehensive questions and answers
Which of the following is the best example of homeostasis?✔️✔️Regulation and body
temperature
The concentration of physiological saline is?✔️✔️0.85%
Which of the following pipettes is the most accurate?✔️✔️Volumetric pipette
Hypersecretion of insulin would result in?✔️✔️Hypoglycemia
Deoxygenated blood is pumped into the?✔️✔️Pulmonary circulation
The semi-lunar valves:✔️✔️Guard the bases of the two large arterise leaving the ventricles
and are known as the pulmonary and aortic semilunar valves.
After pulmonary circulation, the blood is received by?✔️✔️Left atrium
When you have a STAT request you should perform the test:✔️✔️Immediately
If you use a to contain" pipette, you should?✔️✔️Rinse it to make sure all of the content is
delivered
The valve located between the right atrium and the right ventricle is the?✔️✔️Mitral valve
The electrical conductivity of distilled or deionized water is?✔️✔️Low
,In order to deliver the total volume form the pipette which has a frosted ring near the
colour code, you will?✔️✔️Blow out the last drop
Which sample should be processed as STAT first?✔️✔️Blood gas
Which of the following is not a cardiac enzyme?✔️✔️Alkaline phosphatase
VMA is used to test for? (24hr urine-breakdown)✔️✔️Epinephrine metabolism
Which of the following has valves?✔️✔️Veins
The specimen commonly used for 17-ketosteroids is? (male hormone steroids)✔️✔️24-hour
urine
For an accurate cholesterol test the patient should?✔️✔️-Fast overnight
-Follow a normal diet 1 week before the test
-Be restricted from alcohol for 24 hours prior to the test
-Be restricted from lipid lowering drugs
CPK can be found in?✔️✔️The brain
The muscles
The heart
Xylose tolerance test is primarily tested for?✔️✔️Absorption ability of the small intestine
Which of the following could not be considered as a source of error in micro-hematocrit
tests?✔️✔️Not Haemolysed specimen
Not Hemoconcentrated specimen
,Not Overfilling the capillary tube
Not Overfilling the vacuum tube
What is the right answer?
The normal life span of the erythrocyte is?✔️✔️120 days
Leaving the urine for prolonged time will increase?✔️✔️Bacteria
Hemoconcentration can be caused by?✔️✔️Tourniquet which is left on the patient too long
Whole blood is defribrinated by?✔️✔️Glass beads
The basic dye in Romanowsky staining is?✔️✔️Methylene blue
Supravital stain is used for?✔️✔️Reticulocyte count
Which of the following does not have a nucleus?✔️✔️RBC count
Platelet
Which of the following tests are not part of a CBC profile?✔️✔️Not Leukocyte count
Not Hb estimation
Not Differential cell count
Not RBC count
The counting chamber used for the RBC count is the?✔️✔️Hemocytometer
The pH of blood is?✔️✔️Slightly alkaline
, The anticoagulant used in a CBC profile is?✔️✔️EDTA
Which of the following should not be considered as a source of error in an ESR?✔️✔️Using
blood form an EDTA tube
A decrease in the size of the erythrocyte is known as?✔️✔️Microcytosis
Which of the following anticoagulant does not react with calcium to prevent
clotting?✔️✔️Heparin
When blood clots, the fluid that remains after separation of the clot is called?✔️✔️Serum
Which of the following does not belong to the granulocytic series?✔️✔️Lymphocytes
The buffer solution used in the Wright's stain procedure should have a precise range.
Which pH value is satisfactory?✔️✔️6.4
The cytoplasm of the eosinophilic segmented cells after Wright's stain contains?✔️✔️Large
coarse re-orange granules
Which components would normally be found in plasma?✔️✔️Cholesterol
Calcium
Glucose
Fibrinogen
A type of cancer in which white blood cells multiply wildly and crowd out the red blood
cells and platelets is called?✔️✔️Leukemia
Which of the following is the best example of homeostasis?✔️✔️Regulation and body
temperature
The concentration of physiological saline is?✔️✔️0.85%
Which of the following pipettes is the most accurate?✔️✔️Volumetric pipette
Hypersecretion of insulin would result in?✔️✔️Hypoglycemia
Deoxygenated blood is pumped into the?✔️✔️Pulmonary circulation
The semi-lunar valves:✔️✔️Guard the bases of the two large arterise leaving the ventricles
and are known as the pulmonary and aortic semilunar valves.
After pulmonary circulation, the blood is received by?✔️✔️Left atrium
When you have a STAT request you should perform the test:✔️✔️Immediately
If you use a to contain" pipette, you should?✔️✔️Rinse it to make sure all of the content is
delivered
The valve located between the right atrium and the right ventricle is the?✔️✔️Mitral valve
The electrical conductivity of distilled or deionized water is?✔️✔️Low
,In order to deliver the total volume form the pipette which has a frosted ring near the
colour code, you will?✔️✔️Blow out the last drop
Which sample should be processed as STAT first?✔️✔️Blood gas
Which of the following is not a cardiac enzyme?✔️✔️Alkaline phosphatase
VMA is used to test for? (24hr urine-breakdown)✔️✔️Epinephrine metabolism
Which of the following has valves?✔️✔️Veins
The specimen commonly used for 17-ketosteroids is? (male hormone steroids)✔️✔️24-hour
urine
For an accurate cholesterol test the patient should?✔️✔️-Fast overnight
-Follow a normal diet 1 week before the test
-Be restricted from alcohol for 24 hours prior to the test
-Be restricted from lipid lowering drugs
CPK can be found in?✔️✔️The brain
The muscles
The heart
Xylose tolerance test is primarily tested for?✔️✔️Absorption ability of the small intestine
Which of the following could not be considered as a source of error in micro-hematocrit
tests?✔️✔️Not Haemolysed specimen
Not Hemoconcentrated specimen
,Not Overfilling the capillary tube
Not Overfilling the vacuum tube
What is the right answer?
The normal life span of the erythrocyte is?✔️✔️120 days
Leaving the urine for prolonged time will increase?✔️✔️Bacteria
Hemoconcentration can be caused by?✔️✔️Tourniquet which is left on the patient too long
Whole blood is defribrinated by?✔️✔️Glass beads
The basic dye in Romanowsky staining is?✔️✔️Methylene blue
Supravital stain is used for?✔️✔️Reticulocyte count
Which of the following does not have a nucleus?✔️✔️RBC count
Platelet
Which of the following tests are not part of a CBC profile?✔️✔️Not Leukocyte count
Not Hb estimation
Not Differential cell count
Not RBC count
The counting chamber used for the RBC count is the?✔️✔️Hemocytometer
The pH of blood is?✔️✔️Slightly alkaline
, The anticoagulant used in a CBC profile is?✔️✔️EDTA
Which of the following should not be considered as a source of error in an ESR?✔️✔️Using
blood form an EDTA tube
A decrease in the size of the erythrocyte is known as?✔️✔️Microcytosis
Which of the following anticoagulant does not react with calcium to prevent
clotting?✔️✔️Heparin
When blood clots, the fluid that remains after separation of the clot is called?✔️✔️Serum
Which of the following does not belong to the granulocytic series?✔️✔️Lymphocytes
The buffer solution used in the Wright's stain procedure should have a precise range.
Which pH value is satisfactory?✔️✔️6.4
The cytoplasm of the eosinophilic segmented cells after Wright's stain contains?✔️✔️Large
coarse re-orange granules
Which components would normally be found in plasma?✔️✔️Cholesterol
Calcium
Glucose
Fibrinogen
A type of cancer in which white blood cells multiply wildly and crowd out the red blood
cells and platelets is called?✔️✔️Leukemia
