AMCA 2027 SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Retraction - ✔✔Moving a part of the body backyard
✔✔Rotation - ✔✔Revolving a bone around its axis
✔✔Fracture - ✔✔A broken bone
✔✔Comminuted Fracture - ✔✔The bone is crushed or shattered
✔✔Compression Fracture - ✔✔The fractured area of bone collapse on itself
✔✔Colles Fracture - ✔✔The break of the distal end of the radius at the epiphysis often
occurs when the patient has steroid to break his or her fall
✔✔Complicated Fracture - ✔✔The bone is broken and pierces an internal organ
✔✔Impacted Fracture - ✔✔The bone is broken and the ends are driven into each other
✔✔Hairline Fracture - ✔✔A minor fracture spotters as a thin line on x-ray and may not
extend completely through the bone
✔✔Greenstack Fracture - ✔✔The bone is partially bent and partially broken; this is a
common fracture in children because their bones are still soft
✔✔Salter-Harris Fracture - ✔✔A fracture of the epiphyseal plate in children
✔✔Pathologic Fracture - ✔✔A fracture occurring spontaneously as a result of disease
✔✔Sprain - ✔✔A traumatic injury to a joint involving soft tissue (muscles, ligaments,
tendons)
✔✔Strain - ✔✔A result of overuse or overstretching
, ✔✔Dislocation - ✔✔When a bone comes completely out of place and subluxation is
partially out of joint
✔✔ICD-10 Volume 1 - ✔✔Tabular list
✔✔ICD-10 Volume 2 - ✔✔Instruction module
✔✔ICD-10 Volume 3 - ✔✔Alphabetic list
✔✔Main Term Code - ✔✔Appears in boldface and is followed by the default code
✔✔Subterm Code - ✔✔Found below the main term; may show the etiology of the
disease
✔✔Non-essential Modifier - ✔✔Are shown in parentheses on the same life as the
subterm code
✔✔Eponym - ✔✔Condition named for a person
✔✔Not Elsewhere Classifiable (NEC) - ✔✔No code is specific for that condition
✔✔Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) - ✔✔Used when a condition is not completely
described in the medical record
✔✔Category - ✔✔The character alphanumeric code that covers a single disease or
related condition
✔✔Sub Category - ✔✔4 or 5 character alphanumeric subdivision of a category
✔✔Inclusion Notes - ✔✔Headed by the word "includes" and refine the content of the
category appearing above them
✔✔Exclusion Notes - ✔✔Headed with the word "excludes" and indicates conditions that
are not classifiable to the preceding code
✔✔Exclusion 1 - ✔✔Used when two conditions could not exist together
✔✔Exclusion 2 - ✔✔"Not included here" but a patient could have both conditions at the
same time
✔✔{ } - ✔✔Brackets enclose synonyms, alternative wording or explanatory phrases;
identify manifestation codes
✔✔Retraction - ✔✔Moving a part of the body backyard
✔✔Rotation - ✔✔Revolving a bone around its axis
✔✔Fracture - ✔✔A broken bone
✔✔Comminuted Fracture - ✔✔The bone is crushed or shattered
✔✔Compression Fracture - ✔✔The fractured area of bone collapse on itself
✔✔Colles Fracture - ✔✔The break of the distal end of the radius at the epiphysis often
occurs when the patient has steroid to break his or her fall
✔✔Complicated Fracture - ✔✔The bone is broken and pierces an internal organ
✔✔Impacted Fracture - ✔✔The bone is broken and the ends are driven into each other
✔✔Hairline Fracture - ✔✔A minor fracture spotters as a thin line on x-ray and may not
extend completely through the bone
✔✔Greenstack Fracture - ✔✔The bone is partially bent and partially broken; this is a
common fracture in children because their bones are still soft
✔✔Salter-Harris Fracture - ✔✔A fracture of the epiphyseal plate in children
✔✔Pathologic Fracture - ✔✔A fracture occurring spontaneously as a result of disease
✔✔Sprain - ✔✔A traumatic injury to a joint involving soft tissue (muscles, ligaments,
tendons)
✔✔Strain - ✔✔A result of overuse or overstretching
, ✔✔Dislocation - ✔✔When a bone comes completely out of place and subluxation is
partially out of joint
✔✔ICD-10 Volume 1 - ✔✔Tabular list
✔✔ICD-10 Volume 2 - ✔✔Instruction module
✔✔ICD-10 Volume 3 - ✔✔Alphabetic list
✔✔Main Term Code - ✔✔Appears in boldface and is followed by the default code
✔✔Subterm Code - ✔✔Found below the main term; may show the etiology of the
disease
✔✔Non-essential Modifier - ✔✔Are shown in parentheses on the same life as the
subterm code
✔✔Eponym - ✔✔Condition named for a person
✔✔Not Elsewhere Classifiable (NEC) - ✔✔No code is specific for that condition
✔✔Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) - ✔✔Used when a condition is not completely
described in the medical record
✔✔Category - ✔✔The character alphanumeric code that covers a single disease or
related condition
✔✔Sub Category - ✔✔4 or 5 character alphanumeric subdivision of a category
✔✔Inclusion Notes - ✔✔Headed by the word "includes" and refine the content of the
category appearing above them
✔✔Exclusion Notes - ✔✔Headed with the word "excludes" and indicates conditions that
are not classifiable to the preceding code
✔✔Exclusion 1 - ✔✔Used when two conditions could not exist together
✔✔Exclusion 2 - ✔✔"Not included here" but a patient could have both conditions at the
same time
✔✔{ } - ✔✔Brackets enclose synonyms, alternative wording or explanatory phrases;
identify manifestation codes
