Exam 3: HESI-A2-Vocabulary

What is the best description for the word "digress"?

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The surgeon washed her hands vigorously to eliminate any pathogenic organisms.

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The kinetic energy of a pendulum is greatest when it reaches the very bottom of its swing.

What is the best description for the word barrage?

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The nurse noticed that the joints in the patient's fingers were inflamed.

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The stage of decomposition of the finger was too advanced as to attach it back to the patien′t hand.

Select the best word for the blank in the following sentence. The patient, in addition to his daughters, ­___________ optimistic about the doctor's prognosis.

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. She was an assiduous nursing student, taking meticulous notes and studying every night.

Select the word that means "contamination or invasion of body tissue by pathogenic organisms". The pathology report indicated that infection was the cause of the patient's labile symptoms.

What is the best description for the word abdicate?

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The desired prognosis for the patient was to make a full recovery.

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. To make sure the invasive gastrointestinal surgery went well, the medical staff waited for the patient to defecate normally before discharging him from the hospital.

Which word is not spelled correctly in the context of the sentence? The patient presents callus skin on his fingers and palms, probably because he′s a manual worker.

What is the best description for the word "extenuating"?

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. Within the milieu of the hospital's waiting room, there was a sense of tension and anticipation.

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. That patient in room 246 is exasperating all of the nurses: he keeps yelling at them that they don′t know how to do their job properly.

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The nurse explained it′s better to keep a healthy and balanced diet than to take supplements.

Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The effects of the treatment were ephemeral, and the patient had to be hospitalized two days after.

What word meaning "to look at something very closely" fits best in the sentence? The doctor _________ the radiograph and concluded the bone had broken in three parts.

Select the correct order of words to fit in the sentence structure. Each nursing _____ at the hospital is trained in first-_____.