HESI Vocabulary Questions with Answers.

HESI A2 Vocabulary and General Knowledge

He is a PROLIFIC scientist, generating several important studies each year.

Someone who is abundantly creative and Productive

What is the meaning of Vacuous?

Empty

If a nurse is CIRCUMSPECT with patient records, what is she doing? is to be cautious, or GUARDED

To STANCH a wound is to ____ it Restrict Example: stop (a flow of blood) from a wound.

What is the meaning of ostracize?

Snub

The hospital accepts a certain quota of INDIGENT patients. impoverished Example: "In need"

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A NIT is a kind of ______ Parasite Example: A nit is the egg or young of louse.

What is the meaning of Augment?

Add To Example: to augment something is to make it greater or to add to it.

The patients are under Quarantine until further notice.

Confinement away from the general population Example: Quarantine comes from the word forty.

Which word names a medicine whose purpose is to induce vomiting?

Emetic Example: You might give an emetic to a victim of poisoning.

What is another word for panacea?

Cure Example: A Panacea literally a cure-all a remedy for all illness.

Which word refers to the surgical removal of an organ's contents?

Evisceration Example: Evisceration has to do with removal of the viscera, the internal organs or removal of their contents.

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What is another words for flux?

Discharge Example: in medical terms is often refers to discharge from the bowels.

What is the meaning of Regulations?

Government officials Example: Regulations are used to regulate conduct in a business or government.

A patient who is Querulous might be guilty of __________ Complaining

What is the meaning of pernicious?

Destructive

The night nursing staff is accountable for those records.

Responsible

A blood vessel that Distended is ____ Swollen

Something that is Viscous is thick and sticky. Another word for this might be ______ Gelatinous

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What is the meaning of Collusion?

Conspiracy

If a theory is Obsolete, what is the true of it?

Outdated

A patient who is lethargic may seem _______ Exhausted

What does ONEROUS mean?

Burdensome

Someone who is Altruistic might also be called Charitable

The student observed the tricky procedure with a certain amount of Trepidation.

Misgivings

What is the meaning of Precept?

Guiding principle

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Apply the gel on the gingival MARGIN around the selected teeth using the blunt-tipped applicator including in the package.

Edge

If patients are being Counseled, what happening?

They are being advised

If a patient has SALLOW skin, what is true?

Her skin has a yellow tint

If a doctor has an EXEMPLARY record her work is Praiseworthy

What is the meaning of NEBULOUS? Vague

The voice box may be called the Larynx

The interns observed the CONTOURS of the patients’ rash.

Shape

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What is the meaning of incorrigible?

Incurable

If patient's condition is Deteriorating, he is Getting worse

PRECIPITOUS is best defined as being Swift

Being overweight may PREDISPOSE a person to diabetes.

Make susceptible

What is the meaning of SOPORIFIC? Inducing sleep

If someone is Disseminating information, what is he doing?

Broadcasting it

If you are as an Assiduous worked, you are probably Industrious

What does Instigate mean?

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This medication works by Inhibiting the action of a certain enzyme.

Hindering

A symptom that is Exacerbated is Made worse

To critique something is to Appraise it

What is the meaning of Contrite?

Regretful

Her Guileless manner is one of her most noticeable qualities.

Straightforward

What does Redundancy mean?

Surplus

A body part that has Atrophied has Withered

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Anterior refers to which part of the human body?

Front

What is the best description for the term Gravid?

Expecting a. child

The cavity, once opened, proved to be Riddled with infection.

Overrun

If a treatment Mitigates symptoms, the symptoms become less severe

What does the word Banal mean?

Ordinary

The Ramification of course of treatment are that treatment's Consequence

What does Respite mean?

Relief

What is another word for Asymmetric?

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What is the meaning of counterfeit?

Fake

The quality, safety, and efficacy of the new medicines are not known.

Effectiveness

What is the meaning of Debilitating?

Incapacitating

A surgeon who is Adroit might be described as Skillful

What does Torpid mean?

Sluggish

Did the interns Contravene the doctor's order's?

Disregard

Caudal refers to which part of the human torso?

Bottom

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What is the best description for the term Aseptic?

Purified

Abrupt Sudden

Absorption movement of nutrients from the digestive tube into the bloodstream

Abstain to voluntarily refrain from something

Access a means to obtain or gain entry or a means of approach

Accountable Responsible

Adhere to hold fast or stick together

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Affect appearance of observable emotions

Aggregate a sum total of many things

Ambiance the atmosphere of an environment

Annual occurring every year

Anterior facing forward

Apply to place, put on, or spread something

Audible able to be heard

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Bilateral present on two sides

Cast hard protective device applied to protect a broken bone while the bone heals

Cease come to an end or bring to an end

Compensatory offsetting or making up for something

Complication an undesired problem that is the result of some other event

Comply Do as directed

Concave rounded inward

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Confines limits or boundaries

Consistency degree of viscosity, how thick or thin a fluid is

Constrict to draw together or become smaller

Contingent Dependent

Contour shape or outline of a shape

Contract to draw together, to reduce in size

Contraindication a reason why something is not advisable or why it should not be done

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Defecate expel feces

Diffusion movement of materials from high concentration to lower concentration

Digestion the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food

Distal further away from the point of attachment

Hygiene measures contributing to cleanliness and good health

Hydration maintenance of body fluid

Impaired diminished or lacking some usual quality or level

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Gaping wide open

Flushed reddened or ruddy appearance

Flaccid limp, lacking tone

Fatigue extreme tiredness, exhaustion

Fatal resulting in death

External located outside the body

Exposure Contact

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Expand to increase in size or amount

Exogenous produced outside the body

Excess more than what is needed or usual

Exacerbate to make worse or more severe

Endogenous produced within the body

Elevate to lift up or place in a higher position

Distended enlarged or expanded from pressure

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Dilute to make a liquid less concentrated

Dilate to enlarge or expand

Diameter the distance across the center of an object

Device tool or piece of equipment

Deteriorating Worsening

Depth downward measurement from a surface

Depress press downward

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Deficit a deficiency or lack of something

Impending likely to occur soon

Incidence Occurrence

Inferior Below

Inflamed reddened, swollen, warm and often tender

Ingest to swallow for digestion

Initiate to begin or put into practice

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Intact in place, unharmed

Internal located within the body

Invasive inserting or entering into a body part

Labile changing rapidly and often

Latent present, but not active or visible

Lateral away from the midline or toward the sides

Lethargic difficult to arouse

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Manifestation an indication or sign of a condition

Medial toward the midline

Milieu the environmental condition, or setting

Nutrient substance or ingredient that provides nourishment

Occluded closed or obstructed

Ominous significantly important and dangerous

Ongoing Continuos

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Overt obvious, easily observed

Parameter a characteristic or constant factor

Paroxysmal beginning suddenly or abruptly

Patent Open

Posterior toward the back

Potent producing a strong effect

Potential capable of occurring or likely to occur

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Precaution preventative measure

Precipitous rapid, uncontrolled

Predispose to make more susceptible or more likely to occur

Preexisting already present

Primary first or most significant

Priority of great importance

Prognosis the anticipated or expected course or outcome

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Rampant Unrestrained

Rationale the underlying reason

Recur to occur again

Restrict to limit

Retain to hold or keep

Site Location

Status Condition

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Strict stringent, exact, complete

Superior Above

Supplement to take in addition to or to complete

Suppress to stop or subdue

Symmetric being equal or the same in size, shape, and relative position

Symptom an indication of a problem

Untoward adverse, negative or unseemly

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Vital Essential

Void excrete, or expel urine

Volume amount of space occupied by a fluid

Quotient the number obtained by division

Euphemism an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive

Progeny Offspring

Proliferation a rapid increase in number

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Laceration a cut, tear

Triage process of evaluating the urgency of medical need and prioritizing treatment

Viscosity a liquid's resistance to flow

Pigmented Colored

Metabolism the sum of all chemical processes that occur in an organism

Combination the act of combining things to form a new whole

Febrile Feverish

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Respiration the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation

Assess to evaluate

Supposition a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

Regimen (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)

Substitute the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another

Renal of or relating to the kidneys

Sublingual under the tongue

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Convulsion a violent disturbance

Remission improvement or absence of signs of disease

Circuit movement once around a course

Q.I.D. four times a day

ATBE at bedtime

Q.D. once per day

Q.8H every eight hours

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Fracture break (a bone)

Implement to put into action; execute

Valid founded on fact or evidence

Applicable Relevant

Obtain able to gain or possess

Inflamed reddened, swollen, warm and often tender

Sputum mucous secretion from the lungs, bronchi, and trachea expelled through the mouth

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Expectorate to cough up discharge from the lungs and out of the mouth (spit)

Spasmodic affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions

Perceptible easily seen or detected

Eradicate destroy completely

Alleviate provide physical relief, as from pain

Tertiary Health Care a system to return patients to wellness

Docile easily handled or managed (tame)

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Aide assistant; helper

Aid a resource (band-aid)

Spinster an elderly unmarried woman

Plurality (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)

Majority the greater in number of two parts

Superego the moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what is right and wrong

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Elated Delighted

Cicatrix Scar

Emetic a medicine that Induces vomit

Panacea Cure

LDL Type of Lipoprotein

Disintegrates Fragments

Qualms Misgivings

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Gravid Expecting a child

Alimentary Related to nourishment; A digestive tract consisting of a tube running between a mouth and an anus; also called a complete digestive tract.

Paltry Insignificant

Urea Crystalline compound that is a product of protein metabolism

Quandary A state of uncertainty

Cauterize to burn

Convoluted Winding, twisting, and therefore difficult to understand; intricate

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Deleterious harmful

Differentially Respectfully

Perused Read thoroughly

Acute having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course

Inconclusive does not prove anything or comes to no conclusion; unsettled

Ethereal (adj.) light, airy, delicate; highly refined; suggesting what is heavenly (rather than earthbound)

Incorrigible (adj.) not able to be corrected; beyond control; incurable

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Anodyne Painkilling

Palliative soothing

Deluge A downpour; a great flood

Censure To criticize harshly; denounce

Posthumous (adj.) occurring or published after death; post-mortem

Bellicose Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.

Truculent argumentative; Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.

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Volatile easily arouse or changeable; lively or explosive; unstable

Waft Moved gently by wind or waves; something conveyed through the air; a gentle breeze

Contemptuous Feeling hatred; scornful

Ostracize (v.) to exclude from a group, banish, send away

Indigent (adj.) needy, impoverished

Formulaic done according to an overused method; trite

Sanguinary Bloody

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Puerilism childishness

Evisceration removal of a organ's contents

Flux discharge

Intramuscularly into muscles

Histrionics Exaggerated emotional behavior

Contravene To act against or be counter to; disregard

Doleful (adj) sad; dreary; downcast

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Inquest A legal inquiry into the cause or manner of a death.

PDR refers to a book

Enervated lacking energy, weakened, exhausted

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