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SCRIBE AMERICA ENTRANCE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS UPDATED (202 5 /202 6 )
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Ecchymosis - ANS ✓A bruise Edema - ANS ✓Swelling Emesis - ANS ✓Vomiting Epistaxis - ANS ✓Nose bleed Erythema/Erythematous - ANS ✓Redness/Red Grossly - ANS ✓Obviously; a lot; wholly Hematemesis - ANS ✓Very large amounts of blood in the vomit Hematuria - ANS ✓Very large amounts of blood in the urine Haemoptysis - ANS ✓Coughing up very large amounts of blood Haemorrhage - ANS ✓Excess of profuse bleeding Hepatomegaly - ANS ✓Enlarged liver
Hypertension - ANS ✓High blood pressure Hypotension - ANS ✓Low blood pressure Hypoxia - ANS ✓Low oxygen saturation of the body, not enough oxygen in the blood. Infarct - ANS ✓Area of dead tissue after a lack of blood supply Inferior - ANS ✓Lower of the body, farther from the head Ischemia - ANS ✓Lack of blood supply Laceration - ANS ✓Splitting of the skin due to trauma (a cut due to something sharp) Abrasion - ANS ✓Scrape of the skin due to something abrasive Acute - ANS ✓New, usually of rapid onset and of concern, opposite of chronic Anterior - ANS ✓Located towards the front of the body Benign - ANS ✓Normal, of no danger to health Bradycardia - ANS ✓Slow heart-rate (less than 60bpm) Cardiomegaly - ANS ✓Enlarged heart
Medial - ANS ✓Nearer to the midline Melena - ANS ✓Black tarry stool Myocardial Infarction (MI) - ANS ✓Death of cardiac muscle due to ischemia. Myalgia - ANS ✓Muscular pain, "muscle aches" Oriented x3 - ANS ✓Oriented to person, place and time Pallor - ANS ✓Pale skin Pulmonary Embolism (PE) - ANS ✓Blocking of a pulmonary artery due to a blood clot. Posterior/Dorsal - ANS ✓Rear or backside of the body Proximal - ANS ✓Nearer to the trunk of the body Purulent - ANS ✓Pus-like Rales - ANS ✓Crackles; wet crackling noise in lungs Rhinorrhoea - ANS ✓Clear nasal discharge, "runny nose" Rhonchi - ANS ✓Rattling noise of mucous in the lungs
Sepsis - ANS ✓Dangerous infection of the blood STEMI - ANS ✓ST elevation MI, real-time ongoing death of heart tissue due to ischemia Superior - ANS ✓Higher on the body Supine - ANS ✓Body position lying face up Syncope - ANS ✓"passing out", loss of consciousness or fainting Tachycardia - ANS ✓Fast heart rate (greater than 100bpm) Tachypnea - ANS ✓Increased breathing rate Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) - ANS ✓Minor stroke; where neurological function is regained quickly with time Vertigo - ANS ✓Condition of dizziness, "room spinning" Wheezing - ANS ✓High pitched sound heard in the lungs with asthmatics or lung disease
