Hesi A2 Vocabulary Latest Updated 2023 Graded A+
Virulence ✔✔Capacity of a pathogen to cause severe disease; for example, measles virus is of low virulence; while rabies virus is highly virulent
Rancid ✔✔Having a bad taste or smell; spoiled
Assent ✔✔agreement with a statement or proposal to do something
Cornucopia ✔✔Abundance; horn of plenty
Furnished ✔✔supplied; given
Hierarchy of Needs ✔✔Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active
Etiology ✔✔The study of the cause or origin of a disease 1 / 4
Delusion ✔✔1. A false belief or opinion, especially one held in spite of contradictory evidence
Fontanel ✔✔A soft, membrane-covered space between the bones at the front and the back of a newborn's skull. Also known as the "soft spot"
Efface ✔✔(v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
Vertigo ✔✔Condition of dizziness, often described as a room spinning sensation
Ostracize ✔✔(v.) to exclude from a group, banish, send away
Allude ✔✔(v.) to refer to casually or indirectly
Ubiquitous ✔✔existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent
Environment ✔✔All external conditions and factors, living and nonliving (chemicals and energy), that affect an organism or other specified system during its lifetime. 2 / 4
Recessive ✔✔An allele that is only expressed in the phenotpye if there is not a dominant allele in the genotype is said to be recessive.
Preferred ✔✔A special type of stock whose owners, though not generally having a say in running the company, have a claim to profits before other stockholders do.
Fundamental ✔✔The tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition
Triage ✔✔the order in which patients are to be treated
Shock ✔✔A condition in which the circulatory system fails to provide sufficient circulation to enable every body part to perform its function; also called hypoperfusion.
Longevity ✔✔Long life
Impervious ✔✔impossible to penetrate 3 / 4
Adequate ✔✔Enough; sufficient
Expedite ✔✔(v.) to make easy, cause to progress faster
Toxic ✔✔Causing harm; poisonous
Flexion ✔✔Act of bending a joint
Notorious ✔✔Known widely and unfavorably
Receipt ✔✔A source document that serves as a record of cash received.
Rigidity ✔✔Hardness, stiffness, or inflexibility
Cannula ✔✔a small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication
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