HESI A2 VOCABULARY LATEST 2023
RATED A+
ABRUPT ✔✔sudden
ABSTAIN ✔✔to refrain from something by one's choice
ACCESS ✔✔a means to obtain entry or a means of approach
ACCOUNTABLE, ✔✔responsible
ADHERE ✔✔to hold fast o
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HESI A2 VOCABULARY LATEST 2023
RATED A+
ABRUPT ✔✔sudden
ABSTAIN ✔✔to refrain from something by one's choice
ACCESS ✔✔a means to obtain entry or a means of approach
ACCOUNTABLE, ✔✔responsible
ADHERE ✔✔to hold fast or stick together
ADVERSE ✔✔Undesired, possibly harmful
AFFECT ✔✔Appearance of observable emotions
ANNUAL ✔✔Happening once a year
APPLY ✔✔To place, put on, or spread somthing
AUDIBLE ✔✔able to be heard
BILATERAL ✔✔Present on two sides
CAST ✔✔Hard protective device applied to protect a broken bone while it 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
CONCISE ✔✔Brief, to the point
CONSISTENCY ✔✔Degree of viscosity
CONSTRICT ✔✔To draw together or become smaller
CONTINGENT ✔✔Dependent
CONTOUR ✔✔Shape or outline of shape
CONTRACT ✔✔To draw together or reduce in size
CONTRAINDICATION ✔✔A reason why something is not advisable or why it should not be
done
DEFECATE ✔✔Expel feces
DEFICIT ✔✔A deficiency or lack of something
DEPRESS ✔✔Press downward
DEPTH ✔✔Downward measurement from the surface
DETERIORATING ✔✔Worsening
DEVICE ✔✔Tool or piece of equipment
DILATE ✔✔To enlarge or expand
DILUTE ✔✔To make a liquid less concentrated
DISCRETE ✔✔Distinct, separate
DISTENDED ✔✔Enlarged or expanded from pressure
ELEVATE ✔✔To place in a higher position
ENDOGENOUS ✔✔Produced within the body
EXACERBATE ✔✔To make worse
DIAMETER ✔✔The distance across the center of an object
EXCESS ✔✔More than what is needed or usual
EXOGENOUS ✔✔Produced outside the body
EXPAND ✔✔To increase in size or amount
EXPOSURE ✔✔Contact
EXTERNAL ✔✔Located outside the body
FATAL ✔✔Resulting in death
FATIGUE ✔✔Extreme tiredness
FLACCID ✔✔Limp, lacking tone
FLUSHED ✔✔Reddened or ruddy appearance
GAPING ✔✔Wide open
GENDER ✔✔Sex of an individual
HYDRATION ✔✔Maintenance of body fluid balance
HYGIENE ✔✔Measures contributing to cleanliness and good health
IMPAIRED ✔✔Diminished or lacking some usual quality or level
IMPENDING ✔✔Likely to occur soon
INCIDENCE ✔✔Occurrence
INFLAMED ✔✔Reddened, swollen, warm and often tender
INGEST ✔✔To swallow for digestion
INITIATE ✔✔To begin or put into practice
INSIDIOUS ✔✔So as to not become apparent for a long time
INTACT ✔✔In place, unharmed
INTERNAL ✔✔Located within the body
INVASIVE ✔✔Inserting or entering into the body part
LABILE ✔✔Changing rapidly and often
LATENT ✔✔Present, but not active or visible
LETHARGIC ✔✔Difficult to arouse
MANIFESTATION ✔✔an indication or sign of a condition
NUTRIENT ✔✔substance or ingredient that provides nutrition
OCCLUDED ✔✔closed or obstructed
OMINOUS ✔✔significantly important or dangerous
ONGOING ✔✔continuous
ORAL ✔✔Given through or affecting the mouth
OVERT ✔✔obvious or easily observed
PARAMETER ✔✔a characteristic or constant factor
PAROXYSMAL ✔✔beginning suddenly or abruptly
PATENT ✔✔open
POTENT ✔✔giving a strong effect
POTENTIAL ✔✔capable of occurring or likely to occur
PRECAUTION ✔✔preventive measure
PRECIPITOUS ✔✔rapid, uncontrolled
PREDISPOSE ✔✔to make more susceptible or likely to occur
PREEXISTING ✔✔Already exists
PRIMARY ✔✔first or most significant
PRIORITY ✔✔of great importance
PROGNOSIS ✔✔the anticipated or expected course or outcome
RATIONALE ✔✔the underlying reason
RECUR ✔✔to occur again
RESTRICT ✔✔to limit
RETAIN ✔✔to hold or keep
SITE ✔✔location
STATUS ✔✔condition
STRICT ✔✔stringent, exact, complete
SUPPLEMENT ✔✔to take in addition to or to complete
SUPPRESS ✔✔to stop or subdue
SYMMETRIC ✔✔being equal or the same size shape and position
SYMPTOM ✔✔an indication of a problem
UNTOWARD ✔✔adverse or negative
URINATE ✔✔excrete or expel urine
VERBAL ✔✔spoken, using words
VITAL ✔✔essential
VOID ✔✔excrete,expel urine
VOLUME ✔✔amount of space occupied by a fluid
MILIEU ✔✔a person's social environment
PROGENY ✔✔offspring
FEBRILE ✔✔pertaining to fever
Q.I.D. ✔✔four times a day
PAROXYSMAL ✔✔pertaining to the sudden onset of an attack, symptoms, or emotion E.G. a
_________ of weaping; ___________ coughing
PRECIPITOUS ✔✔sudden and dramatic; abrupt. (perhaps dangerously so)
UNTOWARD ✔✔unseemly or improper
EXPECTORATE ✔✔to cough or SPIT out phlegm from the throat or lungs
INTACT ✔✔whole
BREECH BIRTH ✔✔baby's buttocks or feet come out first
BREACH ✔✔to break an agreement
TRANSDERMAL ✔✔administered through the skin -- as with a patch
OBTUSE ✔✔slow-witted; ignorant
-LYSIS ✔✔disintegration or decomposition.
DEGENERATE ✔✔v. to deteriorate or decline. adj. having lost normal/desirable qualities
ILIUM ✔✔lateral portion of the hip bone
TERTIARY (HEALTH CARE) ✔✔specialized care: cancer, burn, plastics Hesi *return to
wellness*
TERTIARY ✔✔third order or level
BAND- ✔✔aid
NURSING _________ ✔✔aide
to ____________ someone ✔✔aid
PLURALITY ✔✔more votes than the others
MAJORITY ✔✔more than half
SUPEREGO ✔✔acts as a self-critical conscience. Involves standards learned from
parents/teachers. *contains rigid rules*
INDOLENT ✔✔wanting to avoid activity or exertion. Lazy.
BETWEEN ✔✔Use when there are TWO choices. Also, use for more than two choices if it
involves a choice of distinct individual items. Choose __________ poms, cheerleading or drill
team.
AMONG ✔✔use this for choosing ________ items lumped together. E.g. choose _______ the
five dresses on the rack. Not used for TWO dresses.
VALID ✔✔applicable
DISTAL ✔✔part of the body farthest from the injury
UNNECESSARY ✔✔spelled with two Ns.
FARTHER ✔✔refers to a measurable distance.
FURTHER ✔✔refers to a figurative distance. (we will have to discuss this __________)
CONTRACTION ✔✔spasm
DISTAL ✔✔the part of the body farthest from the injury
TRIAGE ✔✔the order in which patients are to be treated
PIGMENTED ✔✔colored
METABOLISM ✔✔processing reaction
CONVULSION ✔✔spasm
IMPLEMENT ✔✔cause to happen
VALID ✔✔applicable
EXPAND ✔✔the opposite of contract
PRECIPITOUS ✔✔abrupt
UNTOWARD ✔✔unseemly
INTACT ✔✔whole
AUDIBLE ✔✔perceptible
PARAMETERS ✔✔limits
PRINCIPLE ✔✔a truth, a rule, or a law
NUMBER ✔✔can be counted
AMOUNT ✔✔cannot be counted
LETHARGIC ✔✔sleepy
IS ✔✔Each of the two European capitals _____ named after a famous leader.
LIE ✔✔to take a horizontal position
LAY ✔✔to place (something somewhere)
LAIN ✔✔past participle of lie
LAID ✔✔past participle of lay
Janet called her dog, who had run after a squirrel. ✔✔Janet called her __________ run after a
squirrel.
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