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Wisconsin CNA State Exam Vocabulary Questions And Answers Latest Update 2024/2025
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Wisconsin CNA State Exam VocabularyQuestions And Answers Latest Update
2024/2025
Abandonment Answer: To leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert
Abdominal thrust Answer: Method of attempting to remove an object from the airway of someone
who is choking.
Abductor wedge Answer: A health aid that enables the user to maintain proper leg positioning while
recovering from hip replacements or fractures
Abnormal vital Answer: There are four main vital signs: body temperature, blood pressure, pulse
and breathing rate. For each there is a normal measurement range. Measurements outside the range
can be considered abnormal (deviant/atypical).
Absorption Answer: The process of taking in something, such as water in a natural or gradual way
Abuse Answer: Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental or emotional pain or injury to
someone,
Accountable Answer: Subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; responsible;
answerable.
Activities Answer: A thing that a person or group does or has done.
Acute Answer: Characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset
,Adaptive Answer: Engaged in by disabled persons with the aid of equipment or techniques adapted
for a disability
Adaptive devices Answer: Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform
activities of daily living; also called assistive devices,
Adduction Answer: To draw (as a limb) toward or past the median axis of the body also: to bring
together (similar parts)
ADLs: Answer: Daily personal care tasks such as bathing; caring for skin, nails, hair, and teeth;
dressing, toileting; eating, and drinking; walking; and transferring.
Admission: Answer: The act or process of accepting someone into a hospital, clinic, or other
treatment facility as an inpatient
Admitting resident Answer: To accept (resident) into a hospital, clinic, or other treatment facility as
an inpatient
Advance directives Answer: Legal documents that allow people to choose what medical care they
wish to have if they are unable to make those decisions themselves.
Afebrile Answer: Free from fever: not marked by fever
Affected side Answer: A weakened side from a stroke or injury; also called weaker or involved side
Aging process Answer: The biological process of growing older.
,Agitation Answer: A state of excessive psychomotor activity accompanied by increased tension and
irritability
AIDS Answer: A disease of the human immune system
Alzheimer's disease Answer: A progressive, incurable disease that causes tangled nerve fibers and
protein deposits to form in the brain, eventually causing dementia.
Ambulation Answer: Walking
Amputees Answer: One that has had a limb cut from the body
Anatomy Answer: A work describing the form and structure of an organism and its various parts
Anemia Answer: A condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells, in hemoglobin, or in
total volume
Angina Answer: Chest pain, pressure or discomfort
Anterior Answer: Relating to or situated near or toward the head
Antibiotics: Answer: A medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or
destroys microorganisms.
Anti-embolitic stocking Answer: TED hose. Special stockings used to help prevent swelling and blood
clots and aid circulation; also called elastic stockings.
, Aphasia Answer: Difficulty using or understanding words
Apical pulse Answer: The pulse on the left side of the chest, just below the nipple.
Apnea Answer: The absence of breathing
Arteries Answer: Vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
Arteriosclerosis Answer: Thickening and hardening of the arterial walls
Arthritis Answer: A general term that refers to inflammation of the joints.
Aspiration Answer: The inhalation of food, fluid, or foreign material into the lung
Assault Answer: Threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he or she will
be harmed
Assistive device Answer: Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform
ADLS.
Atrophy Answer: The wasting away, decreasing in size of muscled from lack of use
Audiologist Answer: A health care professional who is trained to evaluate hearing loss and related
disorders, including balance (vestibular) disorders and tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and to rehabilitate
individuals with hearing loss and related disorders
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