HESI A2 - VOCABULARY EXAM QUESTIONS

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HESI A2 - VOCABULARY EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering.

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Exposure Question 2: the chemical and physical processes continuously going on in living organisms and cells, consisting of anabolism and catabolism.

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Metabolism

Question 3: existing in possibility; capable of development into actuality.

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Potential

Question 4: new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.

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Cicatrix

Question 5: someone who is willing to accept, or be influenced by a suggestion.

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amenable

Question 6: to land that is too poor to produce much or any vegetation.

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Barren Question 7: someone or something that forms the base, from which everything else develops.

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Fundamental

Question 8: holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold.

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Illogical Question 9: the act or practice of causing death painlessly, so as to end suffering: advocated by some as a way to deal with persons dying of incurable, painful diseases.

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Euthanasia Question 10: an animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it.

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parasite

Question 11: Something that is intended to prevent disease

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prophylactic

Question 12: to stick or be attached firmly to a surface.

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adhere

Question 13: expressing or covering much in a few words.

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concise

Question 14: excessive admiration or praise.

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Adulation Question 15: the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.

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Hematologic

Question 16: rough and noisy.

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Boisterous

Question 17: someone who is unable to read and write.

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Illiterate Question 18: subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something.

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Accountable Question 19: readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown.

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Labile

Question 20: not performing normally

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Tenacious

Question 21: the act of flexing or bending.

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Flexion

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n a way that achieves maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense

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efficiency Question 23: situated away from the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone.

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Distal

Question 24: The entire range or extent of something

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gamut Question 25: a branch of medicine concerned especially with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system.

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Neurological

Question 26: increase in extent, number, volume, or scope.

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Expanding

Question 27: something that is satisfactory or acceptable; pleasant to taste.

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Palatable

Question 28: relating to, or involving both nerves and blood vessels.

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Neurovascular