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CNA Vocabulary Exam questionand answer (2024 – 2025updat4d)
Abduction - correct answer ✅moving a body part away
from the body.
Abuse - correct answer ✅purposely causing physical,
mental, or emotional pain or injury to someone.
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) - correct answer
✅personal care tasks a person does every day to care for
him- or herself; include bathing, dressing, caring for teeth
and hair, toileting, eating and drinking, and moving
around.
Activity Therapy - correct answer ✅therapy for people
with Alzheimer's djsease that uses activities to prevent
boredom and frustration.
Acute - correct answer ✅an illness that has severe
symptoms.
Acute care - correct answer ✅care performed in
hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.
,CNA Vocabulary Exam question
and answer (2024 – 2025updat4d)
Adaptive devices - correct answer ✅special equipment
that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform ADLs;
also called assistive devices.
Adduction - correct answer ✅moving a body part
toward the body.
Adult daycare - correct answer ✅care given at a facility
during daytime hours; generally for people who need
some help but are not seriously ill or disabled.
Advance directives - correct answer ✅documents that
allow people to choose what kind of medical care they
wish to have if they are unable to make those decisions
themselves.
Affected side - correct answer ✅a weakened side from
a stroke or injury; also called the "weaker" or "involved"
side.
Ageism - correct answer ✅prejudice toward,
stereotyping of, and/or discrimination against older
persons or the elderly.
,CNA Vocabulary Exam question
and answer (2024 – 2025updat4d)
Airborne Precautions - correct answer ✅used for
diseases that can be transmitted through the air after
being expelled.
Ambulation - correct answer ✅walking.
Amputation - correct answer ✅removal of some or all
of a body part.
Angina pectoris - correct answer ✅chest pain.
Anxiety - correct answer ✅uneasiness or fear, often
about a situation or condition.
Apathy - correct answer ✅a lack of interest.
Aphasia - correct answer ✅the inability to speak or to
speak clearly.
Asepsis - correct answer ✅term meaning that no
infection is present.
, CNA Vocabulary Exam question
and answer (2024 – 2025updat4d)
Aspiration - correct answer ✅the inhalation of food or
drink into the lungs; can cause pneumonia or death.
Assault - correct answer ✅when a person feels fearful
that he will be touched without his permission.
Assisted living - correct answer ✅facilities where
residents live who need some assistance; they do not
usually require skilled care.
Assistive devices - correct answer ✅special equipment
that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform ADLs;
also called adaptive devices.
Atrophy - correct answer ✅the wasting away,
decreasing in size, and weakening of muscles.
Autoimmune illness - correct answer ✅condition in
which the body's immune system attacks normal tissue in
the body.
Battery - correct answer ✅when a person is touched
without his or her permission.
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