HESI vocab nursehub

  1. Abrupt 

  • Sudden or unexpected

  1. Malfunctioning 

  • Dysfunctional 

  1. febrile

  • Pertaining to or marked by fever

  1. Languid

  • Lacking energy, or causing a lack of energy or enthusiasm 

  1. Regimen 

  • A regulated course, as of diet, or manner of living, intended to preserve or restore health or to attain some result 

  1. concise

  • Expressing or covering much in few words 

  1. Lift up

  • Elevate 

  1. Potent

  • Chemically or medicinally effective 

  1. Delusion 

  • A persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintain despite indisputable evidence to the contrary 

  1. Possibility

  • Similar meaning - potential 

  1. Euthanesia 

  • An 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? 

  1. Amenable

  • Willing to accept, or be influenced b a suggestion

  1. Palliative

  • Reduce pain

  • The palliative treatment focused on providing comfort and pain relief to improve the quality of life for the patient with a terminal illness

  1. Burgeoning 

  • Growing or developing quickly

  1. Accountable 

  • Subject to obligation to report, explain, or justify something 

  1. exposure

  • The act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering 

  1. Laceration 

  • A torn and ragged wound 

  1. Entreat

  • To plead with, especially in order to persuade

  1. ruminate

  • To think about something seriously 

  1. Apathetic 

  • Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern 

  1. Boisterous 

  • Rough and noisy 

  1. Hematologic 

  • The study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs 

  1. Lateral 

  • Side 

  1. Fundamental 

  • Something that forms the base 

  1. illiterate

  • Unable to read and write

  1. parasite

  • An animal or plant that lives on ir in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it 

  1. cicatrix

  • New tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar

  1. Diligent 

  • Someone who is careful and using a lot effort 

  1. Distal 

  • Away from the point of origin or attachment 

  1. Pensive 

  • Someone engaged or reflecting in deep or serious thought 

  1. Metabolism 

  • The chemical and physical processes continuously going on in living organisms and cells, consisting of anabolism and catabolism 

  1. Neurovascular 

  • Of or relating to the nervous system 

  1. Rigidity

  • Stiff or unyielding 

  1. Proliferation 

  • To grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring 

  1. Euphemism 

  • The substitution or an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant 

  1. Adulation 

  • Excessive admiration or praise 

  1. Palatable 

  • Satisfactory or acceptable; pleasant to taste 

  1. adhere

  • To stick

  1. increase

  • Similar meaning to expanding 

  1. adverse

  • Harmful 

  1. Neurological 

  • Medicine concerned with the nervous system 

  1. irreproachable

  • Without fault and therefore impossible to criticize

  1. flexion

  • Bending 

  1. Referral 

  • An act of sending 

  1. Barren 

  • Land that is too poor to produce much or any vegetation 

  1. Poisonous 

  • Toxic

  1. Endogenous 

  • Found or coming from within something, such as a system or a person’s body or mind 

  1. Vertigo 

  • A sensation of whirling and loss of balance 

  1. Staunch

  • To stop liquid, especially blood, from flowing out 

  1. occluded

  • To close, shut, or stop up