Hesi Exam Terms

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Abstain

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Refrain

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Acute

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Sudden, intense

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Adverse

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Undesired, possibly harmful

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Aegis

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Control, protection

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Ambivalent

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Uncertain, having contradictory feelings

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Assent

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Give consent, to agree

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Compensatory

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Offsetting,making up for something

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Consistency

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Degree or viscosity. How thick or thin a fluid is in relation to how it flows

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Contingent

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Dependent

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Contraindication

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Reason something is not advisableor should not be done

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Cursory

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Quick, perfunctory, not thorough

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Defecate

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Expels feces

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Dilate

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To enlarge or expand

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Discrete

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Distant, seperate

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Distal

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Distant

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Etiology

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Cause of disease

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Exacerbate

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Make worse, or severe

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Flushed

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Reddened

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Hematologic

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Relating to blood

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Impending

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Occuring in the near future

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Impervious

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Not allowing anything to pass through

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Infer

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Conclude or deduce

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Insidious

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Gradual

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Invasive

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Inserting, entering a body part

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Kinetic

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Relates to movement

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Liable

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Changing rapidly & often

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Latent

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Present but not active/visible

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Lethargic

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Difficult to arouse

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Manifestation

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Indication or sign of a condition

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Occluded

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Closed or obstructed

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Parameter

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Constant factor limit

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Patent

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Open

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Pathogenic

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Causing or able to cause disease

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Pathology

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Processes, causes, and effects of a disease, abnormalities

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Precipitious

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Rapid, uncontrolled

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Renal

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Kidneys

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Serene

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Calm

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Sublingual

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Under the tongue

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Supplement

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Take in addition

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Transdermal

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Crossing through the skin

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Transmission

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Transfer such as of a disease

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Triage

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Process used to determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of patients condition & likelihood of benefits from the treatment

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Ubiquitous

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Begins or seeming to be everywhere at once

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful & severe

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Virus

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Microscopic infectious. Replicating only in living cells usually causing infectious diseases