Admission Assessment Exam Review E-Book: HESI A2 Vocabulary- Chapter 3 Flashcards

Sudden

To voluntarily refrain from something

A means to obtain entry or a means of approach.

Responsible

To hold fast or stick together.

Undesired, possibly harmful

Appearance of observable emotions

Occurring every year

To place, put on, or spread something

Able to be heard

Present on two sides

of of relating to the heart

Hard protective device applied to protect a broken bone while the bone heals

An opening or an empty area

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Come to an end or bring to an end.

res.

Offsetting or making up for something.

An undesired problem that is the result of some other event.

Do as directed.

Rounded inward.

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Brief, to the point.

Degree of viscosity; how thick or thin a fluid is.

To draw together or become smaller.

Dependent.

Shape or outline of a shape.

To draw together, to reduce in size.

A reason why something is not advisable or why it should not be done.

Expel feces.

A deficiency or lack of something.

Press downward.

Downward measurement from a surface.

Worsening

Identification of an injury or disease.

The distance across the center of an object.

To enlarge or expand

To make a liquid less concentrated.

Distinct, separate.

Enlarged or expanded from pressure.

Ex. When a blood vessel is distended, the laboratory technician can easily insert a needle to obtain a blood sample.

Impaired or abnormal functioning.

To lift up or place in a higher position.

Produced within the body

To make worse or more severe.

More than what is needed or usual.

Produced outside the body

To increase in size or amount.

Contact

Located outside the body.

Resulting in death.

Extreme tiredness, exhaustion.

Limp, lacking tone.

Reddened or Ruddy appearance.

Wide open.

Of or relating to the stomach and the intestines.

Sex of an individual, as in male or female.

Of or relating to blood

Maintenance of body fluid balance.

Measures contributing to cleanliness and good health.

Diminished or lacking some usual quality or level.

Likely to occur soon.

Occurence

Contamination or invasion of body tissue by pathogenic organisms.

Reddened, swollen, warm, and often tender.

To swallow for digestion.

To begin or put into practice.

So gradual as to not become apparent for a long time.

In place, unharmed.

Located within the body.

Inserting or entering into a body part.

Changing rapidly and often.

Cut; tear

Present but not active or visible.

Ex. The latent infection produced symptoms only when the patient's condition was weakened from another illness.

Difficult to arouse.

An indication or sign of a condition.

Of or relating to muscle and skeleton

of or relating to muscle and skeleton.

Of or relating to the nervous system

Of or relating to the nervous system and blood vessels.

Substance or ingredient that provides nourishment

Closed or obstructed.

Significantly important and dangerous.

Continous

Given through or affecting the mouth

Obvious, easily observed.

Ex. The obvert symptoms of the disease included vomiting and diarrhea.

A characteristic or constant factor, limit.

Beginning suddenly or abruptly; convulsive

Open

Causing or able to cause disease.

Processes, causes, and effects of a disease; abnormality.

Located behind; in the back.

Producing a strong effect.

Capable of occurring or likely to occur.

Preventive measure.

Rapid, uncontrolled.

To make more susceptible or more likely to occur.

Already present

First or most significant.

Of great improtance

The anticipation or expected course or outcome

The underlying reason.

To occur again

Of or relating to the kidneys

Inhalation and exhalation of air.

To limit

To hold or keep.

Location

Condition

Stringent, exact, complete.

Under the tongue.

To take in addition to or to complete

To stop or subdue.

Being equal or the same in size, shape, and relative position

An indication of a problem

Group of symptoms that, when occurring together, reflect a specific disease or disorder.

Of or relating to the treatment

Crossing through the skin.

Transfer, such as of a disease, from one person to another

Injury, wound.

Process used to determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of a patient's condition and likelihood of benefit from the treatment.

Adverse or negative.

Excrete or expel urine

Of or relating to blood vessels.

Spoken, using words

Microscopic infectious agent capable of replicating only in living cells, usually causing infectious disease.

Essential

Excrete, or expel urine

Amount of space occupied by a fluid.