AMCA CERTIFICATION LATEST EXAMS SCRIPT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔-osis - ✔✔Condition, usually abnormal
✔✔-pathy - ✔✔Disease condition
✔✔-sis - ✔✔State of; condition
✔✔Ante- - ✔✔Before, in front of
✔✔Anti- - ✔✔Against
✔✔Brady- - ✔✔Slow
✔✔Dia- - ✔✔Through, complete
✔✔End, Endo- - ✔✔Within
✔✔Epi- - ✔✔Above, upon
✔✔Hyper- - ✔✔Excessive, above more than normal
✔✔Hypo- - ✔✔Deficient, below, under less than normal
✔✔Peri- - ✔✔Surrounding, around
✔✔Pre- - ✔✔Before
✔✔Sub- - ✔✔Under, below
, ✔✔-ectomy - ✔✔Excision
✔✔-graphy - ✔✔Progress of recording
✔✔-metry - ✔✔Progress of measurement
✔✔-scopy - ✔✔A visual examination
✔✔-stomy - ✔✔A new opening
✔✔-tomy - ✔✔Incision
✔✔-tripsy - ✔✔Progress of crushingay
✔✔No ROM - ✔✔Most synarthroses are immovable joints held together by fibrous
tissue
✔✔Limited ROM - ✔✔Amphiathroses are joints joined together by cartilage that is
slightly moveable, such as vertebrae of the spine or the pubic bone
✔✔Full ROM - ✔✔Diathroses are joints that have free movement. Ball-of-sockets (hip)
and hinge joints (knees) are common diathroses joints, (synovial joints)
✔✔Synovial Joints - ✔✔Free moving joints, are surrounded by joint capsules.
✔✔Bursae - ✔✔Sacs of fluid that are located between the bones out the joint and the
tensions that hold the muscle in place
✔✔Extension - ✔✔To increase the angle of the joint
✔✔Flexion - ✔✔To decrease the angle of the joint
✔✔Abduction - ✔✔Movement away from the midline
✔✔Adduction - ✔✔Movement towards the middle
✔✔Supination - ✔✔Turning the palm or foot upward
✔✔Pronation - ✔✔Turning the palm or foot downward
✔✔Dorsiflexion - ✔✔Raising the foot, pulling the toes toward the shin
✔✔Plantarflexion - ✔✔Lowering the foot, pointing the toes away from the shin
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔-osis - ✔✔Condition, usually abnormal
✔✔-pathy - ✔✔Disease condition
✔✔-sis - ✔✔State of; condition
✔✔Ante- - ✔✔Before, in front of
✔✔Anti- - ✔✔Against
✔✔Brady- - ✔✔Slow
✔✔Dia- - ✔✔Through, complete
✔✔End, Endo- - ✔✔Within
✔✔Epi- - ✔✔Above, upon
✔✔Hyper- - ✔✔Excessive, above more than normal
✔✔Hypo- - ✔✔Deficient, below, under less than normal
✔✔Peri- - ✔✔Surrounding, around
✔✔Pre- - ✔✔Before
✔✔Sub- - ✔✔Under, below
, ✔✔-ectomy - ✔✔Excision
✔✔-graphy - ✔✔Progress of recording
✔✔-metry - ✔✔Progress of measurement
✔✔-scopy - ✔✔A visual examination
✔✔-stomy - ✔✔A new opening
✔✔-tomy - ✔✔Incision
✔✔-tripsy - ✔✔Progress of crushingay
✔✔No ROM - ✔✔Most synarthroses are immovable joints held together by fibrous
tissue
✔✔Limited ROM - ✔✔Amphiathroses are joints joined together by cartilage that is
slightly moveable, such as vertebrae of the spine or the pubic bone
✔✔Full ROM - ✔✔Diathroses are joints that have free movement. Ball-of-sockets (hip)
and hinge joints (knees) are common diathroses joints, (synovial joints)
✔✔Synovial Joints - ✔✔Free moving joints, are surrounded by joint capsules.
✔✔Bursae - ✔✔Sacs of fluid that are located between the bones out the joint and the
tensions that hold the muscle in place
✔✔Extension - ✔✔To increase the angle of the joint
✔✔Flexion - ✔✔To decrease the angle of the joint
✔✔Abduction - ✔✔Movement away from the midline
✔✔Adduction - ✔✔Movement towards the middle
✔✔Supination - ✔✔Turning the palm or foot upward
✔✔Pronation - ✔✔Turning the palm or foot downward
✔✔Dorsiflexion - ✔✔Raising the foot, pulling the toes toward the shin
✔✔Plantarflexion - ✔✔Lowering the foot, pointing the toes away from the shin
