Vet Assistant Final Exam Practice Questions with correct Answers

What is OHSA? - Answer- It requires that all hospital staff are informed of all chemicals to which hey may be exposed to while at work. What is Ethics? - Answer- The system of moral principles that determines appropriate behavior and actions within a specific group. What is the Veterinary Practice act? - Answer- determines if who can practice veterinary medicine and surgery in each state and under which conditions. What is PPE? - Answer- Personal Protective Equipment What is MSDS? - Answer- Material Data Safety Sheets What is the AVMA? - Answer- the organization that acts as the collective voice of the veterinary profession. What is SOP? - Answer- Standard Operating Procedure What SOAP? - Answer- Subjective Objective assessment plan What does Polyphagia mean? - Answer- excessive eating What does Dysuria? - Answer- Painful and difficult urination What is a Laparotomy? - Answer- a surgical incision into the abdomen What is adduction? - Answer- movement of the limb toward the midline. What is Esophagpscopy? - Answer- Examination of the esophagus using and endoscope. What is a Cystocentesis? - Answer- a puncture to the baldder with a needle to remove urine. What is the Ventral side of an animal? - Answer- the direction going up through the abdomen. What is a Ovariohysterectomy? - Answer- The removal of the ovaries and uterus. What is a Pyometra? - Answer- when pus or infection is in the uterus. What is the Buccal? - Answer- the surface going toward the cheek. What is a abdominocentisis? - Answer- puncture into the abdomen. what is extension? - Answer- the act of straightening a limb What does Emesis mean? - Answer- Vomit What are five glands that secrete directly into the bloodstream? - Answer- pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, testies, and ovaries. What are the three main types of joints? - Answer- fibrous, cartilaginous, synovial. What is the Tarsus? - Answer- It is the animal equivalent to the human ankle. What are the three divisions of the nervous system? - Answer- central, peripheral, and automatic. What are the five functions of the integument system? - Answer- Regulate body temp, adjust blood flow, adjust position of hairs, secrete sweat, and produce vitamin D. What are the three functions of the liver? - Answer- supplies raw materials, secretes bile, and breaks down & absorbs fat. What is the rest and restore response produced by? - Answer- parasympathetic system What does the adipose connective tissue consist of? - Answer- Lipids(fat) and storing cells What is the gestation period? - Answer- the time from fertilization to delivery. What is the female reproductive system made up of? - Answer- ovaries, oviducts, cervix, vagina, vulva What do cats do spontaneously? - Answer- Ovulate What is the largest sesamoid bone? - Answer- Patella (kneecap) What is the purpose of the patella? - Answer- distributes the force of the quads What is the carpus located between? - Answer- the radius and the metacarpal bones. What do the bones provide maximum area for? - Answer- muscle attachment What do albino animals lack? - Answer- Melanin What do recticular fibers form? - Answer- supportive framework What two extremities do long bones have? - Answer- epiphysis and diaphysis What are collagen fibers? - Answer- predominant and strong What is a trochanter? - Answer- a lump/bump on the surface of a bone. What are the three pairs of adult pelvis bones? - Answer- ilium, schium, pubis What is the foramen? - Answer- a hole in the bone through which blood vessels and nerves pass. What are the three muscle types? - Answer- skeletal, cardiac, and smooth. What are cells? - Answer- building blocks of life. What is the hind limb termed as? - Answer- `pelvic limb What are the axial skeleton bones? - Answer- skull, spinal column, ribs, and sternum What are the six connective tissues? - Answer- adipose, loose, cartilage, bone, and blood What does the male reproductive system consist of? - Answer- testies, epididymis, vas deferens, accessory sex glands and penis What is the function of the repertory system? - Answer- Exchange of oxygen, into oxygenated blood and then into carbon dioxide. What is the purpose of connective tissue? - Answer- hold and support tissue What are the 2 enzymes pancreas produces? - Answer- insulin and glucagon What does the upper repertory tract do? - Answer- supplies lungs with pure warm humidified air. What are the 2 divisions of the circulatory system? - Answer- systemic and pulmonary What are the three common features of the epithelial tissue? - Answer- consists of cells, no blood vessels and can reproduce. Where are the thoracic vertebrae found? - Answer- the chest region What is the cervical vertebra? - Answer- bones found in the neck region What is an example of a fibrous joint? - Answer- skull bones What is the fibia? - Answer- main weight bearing bone of the distal leg What is the articular surface? - Answer- surface where a bone forms a joint with another bone. What are three segments of the small intestine? - Answer- illium, jejunum, duodenum What two systems is breathing controlled by? - Answer- mechanical control and chemical control what are the five senses? - Answer- gustatory, olfactory, auditory, vestibular, and visual What movements do the synovial joints allow? - Answer- flexion, extension, adduction, abduction ,and circumduction What are the 4 basic tissues of the body? - Answer- epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous "Fight or flight" is produced by what system? - Answer- sympathetic system "bitches" have there period once every how many months? - Answer- 6-7 months What is the pulmonary artery? - Answer- the largest and main artery of the heart What does the dermis layer of skin contain? - Answer- hair follicles, sebaceous glands, and arrector pili What are the glands of the endocrine system? - Answer- thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal cortex, adrenal medulla, pancreas, testies& ovaries. What are the pelvic limbs, Proximal to distal? - Answer- pelvis, femur, patella, tibia, fibula, tarsal bones, metatarsal bones, and phalanges What are the bones in the thoracic limb? - Answer- scapula, humerus, ulna, carpal bones, metacarpal bones, and phalanges What is the meaning of renomegly? - Answer- the disease of the large kidney What drugs induce vomiting? - Answer- emetics When should a patients diet be changed? - Answer- Only when necessary and after careful consideration of nutritional requirements. What is the goal of the aseptic surgical technique? - Answer- Minimize the number of microorganisms that enter the surgical wound What is a seroma? - Answer- the accumulation of serious fluid in dead space in the region of an incision What is a absorbable suture material? - Answer- catgut What is cold sterilization? - Answer- objects that may be damaged by heat What is virulence? - Answer- the destruction of all microorganisms ability to cause disease What is a enterotomy? - Answer- an incision into the intestine What is a gastrotomy? - Answer- and incision into the stomach What is the virucidal disinfectant? - Answer- kills viruses What is hypotension? - Answer- low blood pressure What is the most common type of immunologic test performed in practice? - Answer- ELISA what are the two most commonly performed liver tests in small animal practice? - Answer- ALT and ALP What are the primary chemical tests of kidney function? - Answer- BUN and Crearinine What is plasma? - Answer- an anticoagulant spun down and is clear. What is serum? - Answer- blood placed in a red top tube spun down and it is the clear portion. What is PCV? - Answer- is the packed cell volume, also known as microhematocrit(Hct). What is the immune system? - Answer- includes a variety of calls, tissues, organs, and organ systems that are involved in the body's defense mechanisms. What is the centrifuge? - Answer- a laboratory instrument that separates substances of different densities that are in solution. What are hemostats? - Answer- they are crushing instruments used to clamp blood vessels. They have straight or curved tips. What are needle holders? - Answer- they are used to grasp and manipulate curved needles. What are tissue forceps? - Answer- they are used to clamp and hold tissue and blood vessels. What laws ensure the quality of a veterinary practice? - Answer- practice act, animal welfare act, and common law malpractice. What is the largest expense for a practice? - Answer- inventory What is a cystotomy? - Answer- the incision of the urinary bladder What does nephromegly mean? - Answer- enlargement of the kidney what is polydipsia mean? - Answer- excessive thirst What is tachypnea? - Answer- abnormally rapid respiratory rate What does myositis mean? - Answer- inflammation of the muscles What kind of bone in the animal body is the equivalent to the human ankle? - Answer- tarsus How are parenteral drugs administered? - Answer- by mouth What do veterinarians use commonly to increase urine contractions in animals with dystocia? - Answer- oxytocin Which recumbency should an animal be placed in during a cystocentesis? - Answer- lateral and dorsal Where is Per os drugs administered? - Answer- to the mouth