Compre Exam Flashcards
What is the increase in the size of an organ due to an increase in the number of cells?
Hyperplasia
What is the most critical step in tissue processing?
Fixation
What type of necrosis is seen in a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis?
Caseous necrosis
PAS-positive substances are stained what color?
PAS-positive substances are stained what color?
How many changes of wax are required at 15-minute intervals to ensure complete removal of the clearing agent from tissue by manual impregnation?
Four changes
Jelly-like clots in peritoneal, pleural, and pericardial fluids may be prevented by the addition of what substance?
Heparin
What fluids are used for the diagnosis of rabies? (2)
Carnoy’s Fluid and Acetone
What is the recommended concentration of nitric acid, the most common and fastest decalcifying agent?
5-10%
Frozen sections are commonly used for which three purposes?
Rapid pathologic diagnosis during surgery, enzyme histochemistry, and demonstration of lipids
What is added to Mayer’s egg albumin to prevent the growth of molds?
A: Thymol crystals
A tissue exposed to short bursts of carbon dioxide for a few minutes will do what?
A: Freeze
What is the angle formed between the cutting edge of the microtome knife?
A: 27°-32°
What dehydrating agent contains hydrochloric acid?
A: Von Ebner’s Fluid
For the production of polyclonal antibodies, which animal is most frequently used?
A: Rabbit
What is used for the demonstration of neuroglia in frozen sections?
A: Victoria Blue
Which oxidizing agent cannot accelerate the ripening of hematoxylin?
A: Potassium chloride
What is considered to be the most dangerous type of microtome?
A: Standard Sliding Microtome
In the double embedding method, tissues are first infiltrated with what and then embedded in what?
A: Infiltrated with celloidin, then embedded in paraffin
Which clearing agent is recommended for clearing embryos, insects, and very delicate specimens?
A: Aniline Oil
Removal of excessive mercuric fixatives is accomplished by using what?
A: Alcoholic Iodine
Which embedding mold is not dispensable?
A: Plastic Embedding Rings and Base Mold
What is considered to be the most rapid fixative?
A: Carnoy’s Fluid
Which direction is correct for stropping in knife sharpening?
A: Toe to Heel Direction
In the processing of tissues, when is infiltration done?
A: After clearing, before embedding
What should be done if the tissue is soft when the block is trimmed?
A: Repeat the whole procedure
Excessive exposure to which clearing agent may damage the bone marrow, resulting in aplastic anemia?
A: Benzene
What is the smear preparation technique where the material is rapidly and gently applied in a direct or zigzag line throughout the slide?
A: Streaking
What staining method is used to stain living cells immediately after removal from the living body?
A: Supravital Staining
: What is the recommended ratio of fluid to tissue volume for decalcification?
A: 20:1
Which cell found in cervico-vaginal smears presents a honeycomb appearance?
A: Endocervical glandular cells
Who developed the Cambridge microtome?
A: Paldwell Trefall
The refractive index of the mountant should be as near as possible to that of the glass, which is what?
A: 1.518
Which hone is used for badly nicked knives?
A: Fine Carborundum
What can cause xylene to turn milky when tissue is placed in it?
A: Incomplete dehydration
It is both a nuclear and a histochemical fixative
Newcomer’s Fluid
What is the refractive index of Canada Balsam?
1.524
Cellulose adhesive used in ringing:
Durofix
It is the most reliable way of determining the extent of decalcification.
Radiological Method
Glacial acetic acid solidifies at
17°C
Which of the following are microanatomical fixatives?
1. Heidenhain’s Susa 2. Bouin’s 3. Brasil’s 4. 10% NBF 5. Carnoy’s
1,2,3,4
Use of specific dyes which differentiate particular substances by staining them with a color that is
different from that of the stain itself.
Metachromatic staining
Cytoplasmic fixatives:
1. Kelly’s fluid 2. Muller’s Fluid 3. Carnoy’s fluid 4. Bouin’s 5. Orth’s fluid
1,2,5
It refers to the selective removal of excess stain from the tissue in order that a specific substance
may be stained distinctly from the surrounding tissues.
Differentiation
It is an instrument equipped with a warm plate to manage the impregnated specimen, and a cold
plate at -5 deg C for rapid solidification of the block.
Tissue Tek
This is the iron-free brownish-yellow pigment of hemoglobin, found in places of poor oxygenation,
patiricipating in the formation of bile pigment
Hematoidin
Gram-Twort stain for bacteria stains gram-positive organisms:
Blue-black
The most critical step in tissue processing
Fixation
Trichloroacetic acid is
both a fixative and a decalcifying agent
The most common and fastest decalcifying agent is
nitric acid
Recommended clearing agent for embryos, insects and very delicate specimen?
Aniline oil
A knife that is 100 mm in length and is recommended for frozen sections:
Plane-wedge knife
Excellent fixative for glycogen demonstration.
Picric acid fixatives
An intermediate filament that is always positive for melanomas and schwannomas
Vimentin
It is a special way of preserving tissues by quenching and subsequent desiccation of fresh tissues by
sublimation without the use of any chemical fixative
Freeze drying
An autopsy technique in which thoracic, cervical, abdominal and pelvic organs are removed en
masses and subsequently dissected into organ blocks.
M. Letulle
Xylene turns milky as soon as tissue is place in it. What could be the possible cause?
Incomplete dehydration
Fragmentation of nucleus:
Karyorrhexis
This embedding blocking mold is described by interlocking plates resting on a flat metal base.
Compound
An intermediate filament protein used to confirm the diagnosis of astrocytoma.
Glial fibrillary acidic protein
Compared to its progenitors, a mature red blood cell would have:
no nucleoli
Microtome used to cut celloidin embedded sections
Sliding
Which of the following is the best fixative for iron granules/pigments?
10% NBF
Which one of these media is used when histochemical and enzymatic studies are considered?
Gelatin
Which of the following fixatives contains glacial acetic acid?
I. Newcomer’s fluid
II. Bouin’s fluid
III. Orth’s fluid
IV. Muller’s fluid
I, II
temperature of paraffin oven.
55-60 deg C
Best fixative for preparation of cytologic smears:
Equal parts of 95% ethyl alcohol and
ether
Most commonly used adhesive in routine tissue processing
Mayer’s egg albumin
Simple and most common and the best infiltrating/embedding medium.
Paraffin
The method of cytologic collection for hormonal evaluation
Lateral vaginal scrape
R.A. 5527 was approved on:
June 21, 1969
What is the title of Section 20 of R.A. 5527?
Oath Taking
Code of Ethics: I shall avoid associating or being identified with any ________ of questionable
character
Enterprise
Data Privacy Act of 2012
10173
Culture and Sensitivity
Tertiary Category
Which of the following indicates revocation of license?
Unanimous vote, 3 out of 3
It is the maximum period for suspension of license
2 years
Who is the current chairman of the Board of Medical Technology?
Marilyn Barza
Panunumpa ng Propesyonal: Ako si (Pangalan) ng (________) ay taimtim na nanunumpa. . .
Tirahan
Who is the first president of PAMET?
Charlemagne Tamondong
Who wrote the PAMET Hymn lyrics?
Hector Gayares
Working space of a secondary laboratory?
20 sq. m
Screening drug testing results validity?
1 year
A refresher course is only given to an examinee who has failed the examination?
3 times
It refers to an individual authorized under RA 7170 who makes legacy of all or part of his body
Testator
Satellite services within the same compound with the clinical laboratory shall have?
2 LTO
Not necessary to be registered and procure LTO.
Physician’s Office
A six-month internship program in an accredited training laboratory is under?
CMO 14, s.2006
Addition of MSUD in the Newborn screening panel of disorders is mandated by:
DOH memorandum no. 2012-0154
Which management philosophy focuses on the performance and interaction of people in the
organization?
Organizational behavior
Neutropenia is present in patients with which absolute neutrophil count?
Less than 1.5 × 10^9/L
Violations in the Medical Technology act are listed under RA 5527, section?
29
In cases of death or disability or removal of a member from the board, successor shall serve?
The remaining balance of the term
In cases of removal or change or addition from the list of subjects or weights of the subjects must be
published at least _____ prior to the date of examination.
3 months
spection of laboratories by the Bureau of Health Services and Facilities (BHFS) is done every
____.
2 years
Pathologists can manage not more than how many laboratories?
4
MedTech code of ethics: I shall perform professional work in a manner that merits full confidence and
trust carried out with absolute reliability, accuracy, fairness and __________?
Honesty
STAT” means:
Immediately
Management function that includes defining standards of performance, developing a reporting
system, and taking corrective actions.
Controlling
Management function that includes communicating, motivating, delegating and coaching.
Directing
Section 28 of RA 5527:
Roster of MT
Disposal time for blood units contaminated with transfusion-transmitted diseases
48 hours
Imprisonment for ____ years: Dispensing, transfusing and failing to dispose HIV-contaminated blood.
10 years
Which of the following is authorized for disposal of nuclear or radioactive waste in the Philippines?
PNRC
nhibition against the practice of medical technology is stated in what section?
14
. Clinical laboratories should be inspected
Every 2 years
Facility that is capable of performing Direct Coomb’s test?
Blood bank
Newborn screening should be performed within how many days unless placed in the ICU?
1-3 days
The Nation Blood Services Act of 1994 was approved on:
May 5, 1994
In total, the expanded newborn screening program would screen for how many diseases?
28
Memorandums are examples of what kind of communication flow
Downward
A (n)______________ is a long-term ambition of the organization.
Goal
A dimension of leadership behavior where there is high concern for people, and low concern on
results.
Country Club
– low concern for both people, and the results
Impoverished
Relative weight of Clinical Microscopy in the licensure examination?
10%
The Standard Operating Procedure manual should address four primary areas. These areas are:
Equipment, reporting results, technical methods, materials
A patient with a prolonged PT is given intravenous vitamin K. PT is corrected to normal after 24
hours. Which clinical condition most likely caused these results?
Obstructive jaundice
Blood service facility that performs screening and selection of voluntary blood donors
Blood Collection Unit
Who of the following can be appointed as the chairman of the Council of Medical Technology
Education
Director of Higher Education
Who composed the PAMET hymn?
Francis Pefanco
How many sections are there in the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969?
32
How many sections are there in the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998?
52
Highest level of need according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs:
Self actualization
Decisions are made without consulting the staff:
Authoritarian
delegates much authority to the employees; staff manage their own areas
of business
: Laissez Faire
Who is the first president of PASMETH?
Gustavo Reyes
Reference Laboratory for Microbiology and Parasitology
RITM
Reference Laboratory for Anatomic pathology for cardiac diseases
Philippine Heart Center
Reference Laboratory for Automated urinalysis
NKTI
Reference Laboratory for Hematology
NKTI
Reference Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry
Lung Center of the Philippines
Reference Laboratory for Infectious immunology
San Lazaro Hospital/ SACCL
Reference Laboratory for Toxicology
East Avenue Medical Center
Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004
RA 9275
Policies, Standards and Guidelines for Medical Technology Education
CMO 14, s. 2006
National Blood Services Act of 1994
RA 7719
Philippine AIDS and Prevention and Control Act of 1998
RA 8504
PRC Modernization Law
RA 8981
Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002
RA 9165
R.A. 8504
Philippine AIDS and Prevention and Control Act of 1998
