2026 HESI Advanced Pathophysiolog Y Fnp V1 100 Practice Questions And Answers Guaranteed A+: Latest 2026:2026

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HESI ADVANCED

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXAM

PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND

ANSWERS GUARANTEED A+

• An increase in normal adaptive response to the decreased availability of

oxygen at high altitude is termed which?

• Circadian
• Acclimatization
• Population
• Diurnal

Correct Answer: b. Acclimatization

• What does it mean when the cause of the disease is unwanted medical

treatment?

• Idiopathic
• Ecogenetic
• Genotypical
• Iatrogenic

Correct Answer: d. Iatrogenic

• Which term is used for the first two months of life?
• Infancy

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• Childhood
• Prenatal
• Neonatal

Correct Answer: d. Neonatal

• Which is an objectively identifiable aberration of the disease?
• Symptom
• Syndrome
• Stage
• Sign

Correct Answer: d. Sign

• Which of the following is true regarding catecholamines?
• They are from the parasympathetic nervous system
• They cross the blood brain barrier
• They include epinephrine and norepinephrine
• They cause of decrease in heart rate

Correct Answer: c. They include epinephrine and norepinephrine

• Which of the following is a true statement?
• Antidiuretic hormone is not important for blood volume regulation
• Endorphins increase with stress, resulting in a decrease in pain perception
• Epinephrine and cortisol act very differently
• Cortisol negates epinephrine's activity

Correct Answer: b. Endorphins increase with stress, resulting in a decrease in

pain perception

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• By what mechanism do lipid molecules cross cell membranes?
• They use channel proteins as a membrane transport system
• They are transported across the plasma membrane by endocytosis and

exocytosis

• They use voltage-gated ion channels
• They cross by diffusion

Correct Answer: d. They cross by diffusion

• An initial disturbance in a system sets off a chain of events that does not favor

stability and often abruptly displaces a system from its steady state: what is

that?

• Positive Feedback
• Negative Feedback
• Disease
• Homeostasis

Correct Answer: a. Positive feedback

• What organ shrinks with age?
• Prostate
• Gums
• Heart
• All of the above

Correct Answer: b. Gums

• Which of the following is true?
• An infant will have a slower heart rate than an adult

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• The elderly have better temperature sensations
• There are more sweat glands in an elderly person
• There is less thirst perception in the elderly

Correct Answer: d. There is less thirst perception in the elderly

• Which of the following is true?
• Women snore more than men
• Men have higher calcium levels
• Women have a lower hemoglobin than men
• Men have a lower creatinine level than women

Correct Answer: c. Women have a lower hemoglobin than men

• Which of the following metabolic processes is a component of anabolic

metabolism?

• Protein synthesis
• Glycolysis
• Citric acid cycle
• Oxidative phosphorylation

Correct Answer: a. Protein synthesis

• Which of the following electrochemical mechanism is responsible for

maintaining cell volume?

• The calcium pump
• Glucose transporters
• The sodium-potassium pump
• ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters

Correct Answer: c. The sodium-potassium pump