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Vocab for HESI ent.
HESI entrance!
Question | Answer |
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ABSTAIN | TO VOLUNTARILY REFRAIN FROM SOMETHING |
ACCESS | A MEAND TO OBTAIN ENTRY OR A MEANS OF APPROACH |
ADHERE | TO HOLD FAST OR STICK TOGETHER |
ADVERSE | UNDESIRED, POSSIBLY HARMFUL |
AFFECT | APPEARANCE OF OBSERVABLE EMOTIONS |
BILATERAL | PRESENT ON TWO SIDES |
COMPENSATORY | OFFSETTING OR MAKING UP FOR SOMETHING |
CONCAVE | ROUNDED INWARD |
CONCISE | BRIEF, TO THE POINT |
CONSTRICT | TO DRAW TOGETHER OR BECOME SMALLER |
CONTINGENT | DEPENDANT |
CONTOUR | SHAPE OR OUTLINE OF A SHAPE |
DEFECATE | EXPEL FECES |
DEFICIT | A DEFICEINCY OR LASK OF SOMETHING |
DISCRETE | DISTINCT, SEPERATE |
DISTENDED | ENLARGED OR EXPANDED FROM PRESURE |
ENDOGENOUS | PRODUCED WITH IN THE BODY |
EXACERBATE | TO MAKE WORSE OR MORE SEVERE |
EXOGENOUS | PRODUCED OUTSIDE THE BODY |
FLACCID | LIMP, LACKING TONE |
GAPING | WIDE OPEN |
IMPENDING | LIKELY TO OCCUR SOON |
INFLAMMED | REDDENED, SWOLLEN, WARM, AND OFTEN TENDER |
INITIATE | TO BEGIN OR PUT INTO PRACTICE |
INSIDIOUS | SO GRADUAL AS TO NOT BECOME THE 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 |
OCCLUDED | CLOSED OR OBSTRUCTED |
OMNIOUS | SIGNIFICANTLY IMPORTANT AND DANGEROUS |
OVERT | OBVIOUS, EASILY OBSERVED |
PARAMETER | A CHARACTERISTIC OR CONSTANT FACTOR |
PAROXYSMAL | BEGINING SUDDENLY OR ABRUPTLY |
PATENT | OPEN |
PRECIPITOUS | RAPID, UNCONTROLLED |
PROGNOSIS | THE ANTICIPATED OR EXPECTED COURSE OR OUTCOME |
RATIONALE | THE UNDERLYING REASON |
RETAIN | TO HOLD OR TO KEEP |
SUPPRESS | TO STOP OR SUBDUE |
UNTOWARD | ADVERSE OR NEGATIVE |