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Hesi Vocab A
Term | Definition |
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Ruddy | of or having a fresh, healthy red color; flushed |
Prognosis | outcome statement; likely course of a disease or ailment; forecast |
Labile | volatile, fluctuate sharply and regularly; unstable emotionally |
Progeny | describe a person's offspring; descendant |
Milieu | surroundings, the environmental condition |
Febrile | having a fever, feverish |
Indigent | poor enough to need help from others, needy |
Indignant | outraged, angered at something unjust or wrong |
Lysis | process of enzymes digesting food, destruction of cells |
Alleviate | reduce, provide physical relief, as from pain |
Untoward | unseemingly, not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right and proper |
Parameters | limits, any factor that defines a system and determines its performance |
Aide | someone who acts as an assistant |
Aid | a resource; give help or assistance; be of service |
Ravenous | hungry; starved; devouring or craving food in great quantities |
Effect | outcome or result that follows or is cause by something |
Affect | conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion, touch |