AAMA CMA – Questions/Answers
Pick the root word for "pertaining to the eye" ✔️Ans - Ophthalm
PSA ✔️Ans - Prostate specific antigen
Myopia is the medical term for? ✔️Ans - Nearsightedness
PDA ✔️Ans - The Physicians Desk Reference is an excellent resource for
finding information on drugs
UCR ✔️Ans - Usual, Customary, and Reasonable cost
5 steps of patient education ✔️Ans - 1. Assessment
2. Planning
3. Implantation
4. Evaluation
5. Documentation
Which part of the patient education process involves the use of information
gathered during the assessment phase to determine how the patients
learning needs are met? ✔️Ans - Planning
Which of the following words is spelled correctly?
Chlocystiitis
Myolitis
Myocardiem
Proteinuria ✔️Ans - Proteinuria
Which of the following terms has the correct spelling and denotes a plural
form?
Diagnosis
Diagnoses
Diagnosises
Diagnoseses ✔️Ans - Diagnoses
Plural means? ✔️Ans - More than one in number
,Above the knee ✔️Ans - AKA
Three times a day ✔️Ans - TID
Twice a day ✔️Ans - BID
4 times a day ✔️Ans - QID
Every other day ✔️Ans - QOD
Hapatorrhaphy ✔️Ans - Surgical repair of the liver
Instruments for holding or extracting ✔️Ans - Forceps
Left ear ✔️Ans - AS
Right ear ✔️Ans - AD
Both ears ✔️Ans - AU
Left eye ✔️Ans - OS
Right eye ✔️Ans - OD
Both eyes ✔️Ans - OU
The use of X-rays passed through the body to make a visual record.
✔️Ans - Radiography
The term describes the diagnostic technique of listening to body sounds
✔️Ans - Auscultation
Observing the body for signs and symptoms ✔️Ans - Inspection
Touching with the hands and tips of fingers ✔️Ans - Palpation
Tapping a part of the body with fingers or small hammers to denote sound
as part of a diagnosis ✔️Ans - Percussion
, Measurements of body parts ✔️Ans - Mensuration
Application of touch to assess joint symmetry and ROM ✔️Ans -
Manipulation
CAUTION is an acronym used to detect what ✔️Ans - Early signs of
cancer
Epithelial
Connective
Muscle
Nerve ✔️Ans - What are the 4 types of tissue?
PERRLA ✔️Ans - Pupils, Equal, Round, and Reactive to Light
Accommodation
An imaging technique that reveals more about soft tissues than simple
radiography does ✔️Ans - Computed tomography or computerized axial
tomography
A diagnostic test that uses a strong magnetic field ✔️Ans - MRI
A nuclear medicine technique used for diagnoses ✔️Ans - PET scan
Thallium ✔️Ans - Which substance is used to visualize the heart during
a nuclear medicine procedure?
Doppler ultrasonography ✔️Ans - A procedure that records the velocity
of blood flowing through blood vessels
Incisional biopsy ✔️Ans - The removal of part of a tumor for
examination
Metastasis ✔️Ans - When a patients cancer has spread.
Very virulent or infectious ✔️Ans - Malignancy
Tumor stays in one place and affects all layers of body ✔️Ans -
Carcinoma in situ
Pick the root word for "pertaining to the eye" ✔️Ans - Ophthalm
PSA ✔️Ans - Prostate specific antigen
Myopia is the medical term for? ✔️Ans - Nearsightedness
PDA ✔️Ans - The Physicians Desk Reference is an excellent resource for
finding information on drugs
UCR ✔️Ans - Usual, Customary, and Reasonable cost
5 steps of patient education ✔️Ans - 1. Assessment
2. Planning
3. Implantation
4. Evaluation
5. Documentation
Which part of the patient education process involves the use of information
gathered during the assessment phase to determine how the patients
learning needs are met? ✔️Ans - Planning
Which of the following words is spelled correctly?
Chlocystiitis
Myolitis
Myocardiem
Proteinuria ✔️Ans - Proteinuria
Which of the following terms has the correct spelling and denotes a plural
form?
Diagnosis
Diagnoses
Diagnosises
Diagnoseses ✔️Ans - Diagnoses
Plural means? ✔️Ans - More than one in number
,Above the knee ✔️Ans - AKA
Three times a day ✔️Ans - TID
Twice a day ✔️Ans - BID
4 times a day ✔️Ans - QID
Every other day ✔️Ans - QOD
Hapatorrhaphy ✔️Ans - Surgical repair of the liver
Instruments for holding or extracting ✔️Ans - Forceps
Left ear ✔️Ans - AS
Right ear ✔️Ans - AD
Both ears ✔️Ans - AU
Left eye ✔️Ans - OS
Right eye ✔️Ans - OD
Both eyes ✔️Ans - OU
The use of X-rays passed through the body to make a visual record.
✔️Ans - Radiography
The term describes the diagnostic technique of listening to body sounds
✔️Ans - Auscultation
Observing the body for signs and symptoms ✔️Ans - Inspection
Touching with the hands and tips of fingers ✔️Ans - Palpation
Tapping a part of the body with fingers or small hammers to denote sound
as part of a diagnosis ✔️Ans - Percussion
, Measurements of body parts ✔️Ans - Mensuration
Application of touch to assess joint symmetry and ROM ✔️Ans -
Manipulation
CAUTION is an acronym used to detect what ✔️Ans - Early signs of
cancer
Epithelial
Connective
Muscle
Nerve ✔️Ans - What are the 4 types of tissue?
PERRLA ✔️Ans - Pupils, Equal, Round, and Reactive to Light
Accommodation
An imaging technique that reveals more about soft tissues than simple
radiography does ✔️Ans - Computed tomography or computerized axial
tomography
A diagnostic test that uses a strong magnetic field ✔️Ans - MRI
A nuclear medicine technique used for diagnoses ✔️Ans - PET scan
Thallium ✔️Ans - Which substance is used to visualize the heart during
a nuclear medicine procedure?
Doppler ultrasonography ✔️Ans - A procedure that records the velocity
of blood flowing through blood vessels
Incisional biopsy ✔️Ans - The removal of part of a tumor for
examination
Metastasis ✔️Ans - When a patients cancer has spread.
Very virulent or infectious ✔️Ans - Malignancy
Tumor stays in one place and affects all layers of body ✔️Ans -
Carcinoma in situ
