Medical

Student ID: 22329877

Exam: 039835RR - Transcription Guidelines

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Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer.

1. When a Greek- or Latin-based word ends in -um, form the plural by changing the um to A. a.

B. us.

C. mata.

D. i.

2. _______ is the primary drug information and medication management resource for most of the largest retail pharmacy chains in the United States. A. Physician's Drug Reference (PDR)

B. American Drug Index

C. Clinical Pharmacology

D. The Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book

3. Medical transcriptionists have more trouble with _______ than with any other document preparation. A. abbreviations

B. capitalization

C. transcribing numbers

D. punctuation

4. Use _______ to represent numbers with the following expressions: cranial nerves, type, stage, and grade. A. cardinal numbers

B. Arabic numerals

C. Roman numerals

D. ordinals

5. While transcribing, you hear the following "bee pee is one twenty over eighty," what's this statement referring to? A. blood pressure

B. platelet count

C. vision

D. body temperature

6. Select the proper word to complete the following sentence: The patient needs to wait for her eyes to fully _______. A. dilate

B. dilated

C. dilation

D. dilation

7. Which of the following is always capitalized? A. the plural form of a genus name

B. the name of a species following a genus

C. brand name of drugs

D. generic names of drugs

8. When a Greek- or Latin-based word ends in -us, form the plural by changing the us to A. a.

B. es.

C. ices.

D. i.

9. A dictation of point eight milligrams has been transcribed as 8 mg. This type of error is considered to be _______. A. minor

B. critical

C. permissible

D. major

10. Which sentence uses the correct singular or plural form? A. There's arthritis in several vertebrae.

B. There's arthritis is several phalanx.

C. There's arthritis in both patella.

D. There's arthritis in both scapula.

11. Which of the following is a brand name item? A. surgical mask

B. Band-Aid

C. medical tape

D. tissue

12. The Roman numeral CLXV is equal to A. 225.

B. 155.

C. 195.

D. 165.

13. Identify the subject in the following sentence: The patient will require immediate treatment. A. treatment

B. require

C. patient

D. immediate

14. When writing the exact words of the speaker, enclose the speaker's exact words with A. parenthesis.

B. apostrophes.

C. quotation marks.

D. semi-colons.

15. Which of the following demonstrates proper capitalization? A. James Rooney, MD

B. James Rooney, Md

C. JAMES ROONEY, MD

D. James Rooney, md

16. Grams are used to measure A. temperature.

B. length.

C. mass.

D. volume.

17. The adjective ending that means "pertaining to" or "belong to" is A. -ate.

B. -id.

C. -oid.

D. -ary.

18. Use _______ to add nonessential definitions, comments, or explanations to a sentence. A. an asterisk

B. parentheses

C. a semicolon

D. quotation marks

19. Which of the following symbols is called an ampersand? A. #

B. %

C. @

D. &

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20. The plural of crutch is A. crutchs.

B. crutches.

C. crutchi.

D. crutchas.