FREE Medical Laboratory Technician Questions and Answers

Question 1

What morphological trait facilitates the differentiation of renal tubular epithelial cells from spherical forms of transitional epithelial cells?

Accepted Answer

Nucleus orientation

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Size of the cell

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Shape of the cell

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Vacuoles

Question 2

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) testing is most frequently used to identify pregnancies, but it can also be used as a diagnostic marker for which conditions?

Accepted Answer

Testicular cancer

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Prostate cancer

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Vaginal cancer

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Penile cancer

Question 3

Which reaction is the basis for the methodologies employed for the quantitation of bilirubin in serum/plasma samples?

Accepted Answer

Diazo

Answer

Biuret

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Rous

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Jaffe

Question 4

Which of the following disorders is a symptom of hypernatremia?

Accepted Answer

Severe burns

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Vomiting

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Renal failure

Answer

Potassium deficiency

Question 5

What corrective action may be necessary in order to issue a corrected laboratory report for an incorrectly reported culture ID and susceptibility?

Accepted Answer

Filing a quality assurance incident report

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Filing a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) report

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Filing an FDA medical device report

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Notifying the patient

Question 6

What two hormones are necessary to preserve calcium homeostasis?

Accepted Answer

PTH and vitamin D

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PTH and dehydroepiandrosterone

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Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)

Answer

TSH and vasopressin

Question 7

What autoimmune disease has elevated titers of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) antibodies?

Accepted Answer

SLE

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CREST syndrome

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Polymyositis

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Scleroderma