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Affect ✔✔appearance of observable emotions
Aggregate ✔✔a sum total of many things
Contingent ✔✔dependent
Contraindication ✔✔a reason why something is not advisable or why i
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HESI A2 Vocabulary Latest Update 100%
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Affect ✔✔appearance of observable emotions
Aggregate ✔✔a sum total of many things
Contingent ✔✔dependent
Contraindication ✔✔a reason why something is not advisable or why it should not be done
Distended ✔✔enlarged or expanded from pressure
Deficit ✔✔a deficiency or lack of something
Insidious ✔✔so gradual as to not become apparent for a long time
Labile ✔✔changing rapidly and often
Latent ✔✔present, but not active or visible
Manifestation ✔✔an indication or sign of a condition
Milieu ✔✔the environmental condition, or setting
Occluded ✔✔closed or obstructed
Ominous ✔✔significantly important and dangerous
Overt ✔✔obvious, easily observed
Paroxysmal ✔✔beginning suddenly or abruptly
Patent ✔✔open
Precipitous ✔✔rapid, uncontrolled
Predispose ✔✔to make more susceptible or more likely to occur
Prognosis ✔✔the anticipated or expected course or outcome
Rampant ✔✔unrestrained
Retain ✔✔to hold or keep
Untoward ✔✔adverse, negative or unseemly
Euphemism ✔✔an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive
Proliferation ✔✔a rapid increase in number
Laceration ✔✔a cut, tear
Triage ✔✔process of evaluating the urgency of medical need and prioritizing treatment
Viscosity ✔✔a liquid's resistance to flow
Metabolism ✔✔the sum of all chemical processes that occur in an organism
Febrile ✔✔feverish
Supposition ✔✔a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Regimen ✔✔(medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
Renal ✔✔of or relating to the kidneys
Sublingual ✔✔under the tongue
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
Implement ✔✔to put into action; execute
Valid ✔✔founded on fact or evidence
Applicable ✔✔relevant
Sputum ✔✔mucous secretion from the lungs, bronchi, and trachea expelled through the mouth
Expectorate ✔✔to cough up discharge from the lungs and out of the mouth (spit)
Eradicate ✔✔destroy completely
Tertiary Health Care ✔✔a system to return patients to wellness
Docile ✔✔easily handled or managed (tame)
Aide ✔✔assistant; helper
Aid ✔✔a resource (band-aid)
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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