Clinical Chemistry Recall Exam Questions and Complete Solutions Graded A+

  Swinging bucket type, recommended for serum separator tubes - Answer: Horizontal head centrifuge 22-25° angle less affected by heat build up - Answer: Angle head centrifuge Refrigerated. Reference method for lipoproteins - Answer: Ultracentrifuge Measures speed of centrifuge - Answer: Tachometer 80-95% TAG largest and lightest - Answer: Chylomicrons 45-55% CHON smallest and heaviest - Answer: HDL Does not dispense exact volume - Answer: Tc pipet Dispenses exact volume, more accurate - Answer: Td pipet Continuous etched rings - Answer: Blow out pipet Allow contents to drain by gravity - Answer: Self draining pipet Bulb like enlargement near tip of pipet. Viscous fluids - Answer: Ostwald folon pipet Distance between peaks of a Lightwave - Answer: Wavelength 650-700nm - Answer: Tungsten blue 340nm - Answer: NAD/NADH 540nm - Answer: Cyanmethemoglobin 450nm - Answer: Amniotic fluid Visible IR range - Answer: Tungsten-halogen lamp, iodide lamp UV range - Answer: Mercury arc lamp, xenon arc lamp, deuterium discharge lamp Barrier layer cell. Photomultiplier tube. Photoiodide - Answer: Detector Shorter wavelength higher energy - Answer: Excitation light Longer wavelength lower energy - Answer: Flourescent light/emission light Quenching phenomenon. 2 monochromaters - Answer: Flourometer 2 cuvettes 2 photodetector - Answer: Double beam in space 2 cuvettes. 1 photodetector - Answer: Double beam in time Reference for calcium and magnesium - Answer: Atomic absorption spectrophotometry 4 components in electrolyte panel - Answer: Na K Cl HCO3 A system of continuous tubing - Answer: Continuous flow analyzer Spining rotor - Answer: Centrifugal analyzer Reagents in separate container. Most popular and versitile - Answer: Discrete analyzer Arranged into an array - Answer: Median Gaussian distribution curve - Answer: 1SD 68.3% 2SD 95.5% 3SD 99.7%