HESI RN ADVANCED
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 2024-2025 ACTUAL
EXAM 160 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY RATED A+
An initial disturbance in a system sets off a chain of events that does not favor
stability and often abruptly displaces a system from its steady state: what is
that?
a. Positive Feedback
b. Negative Feedback
c. Disease
d. Homeostasis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a. positive feedback
What organ shrinks with age?
a. Prostate
b. Gums
c. Heart
d. All of the above - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔b. gums
Which of the following is true?
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,a. An infant will have a slower heart rate than an adult
b. The elderly have better temperature sensations
c. There are more sweat glands in an elderly person
d. There is less thirst perception in the elderly - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. there is less
thirst perception in the elderly
Which of the following is true?
a. Women snore more than men
b. Men have higher calcium levels
c. Women have a lower hemoglobin than men
d. Men have a lower creatinine level than women - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔c. Women
have a lower hemoglobin than men
An increase in normal adaptive response to the decreased availability of oxygen
at high altitude is termed which?
a. Circadian
b. Acclimatization
c. Population
d. Diurnal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔b. Acclimatization
What does it mean when the cause of the disease is unwanted medical
treatment?
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,a. Idiopathic
b. Ecogenetic
c. Genotypical
d. Iatrogenic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. Iatrogenic
Which term is used for the first two months of life?
a. Infancy
b. Childhood
c. Prenatal
d. Neonatal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. Neonatal
Which is an objectively identifiable aberration of the disease?
a. Symptom
b. Syndrome
c. Stage
d. Sign - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. Sign
Which of the following is true regarding catecholamines?
a. They are from the parasympathetic nervous system
b. They cross the blood brain barrier
c. They include epinephrine and norepinephrine
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, d. They cause of decrease in heart rate - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔c. They include
epinephrine and norepinephrine
Which of the following is a true statement?
a. Antidiuretic hormone is not important for blood volume regulation
b. Endorphins increase with stress, resulting in a decrease in pain perception
c. Epinephrine and cortisol act very differently
d. Cortisol negates epinephrine's activity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔b. Endorphins increase
with stress, resulting in a decrease in pain perception
By what mechanism do lipid molecules cross cell membranes?
a. They use channel proteins as a membrane transport system
b. They are transported across the plasma membrane by endocytosis and
exocytosis
c. They use voltage-gated ion channels
d. They cross by diffusion - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. They cross by diffusion
Which of the following metabolic processes is a component of anabolic
metabolism?
a. Protein synthesis
b. Glycolysis
c. Citric acid cycle
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PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 2024-2025 ACTUAL
EXAM 160 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY RATED A+
An initial disturbance in a system sets off a chain of events that does not favor
stability and often abruptly displaces a system from its steady state: what is
that?
a. Positive Feedback
b. Negative Feedback
c. Disease
d. Homeostasis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a. positive feedback
What organ shrinks with age?
a. Prostate
b. Gums
c. Heart
d. All of the above - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔b. gums
Which of the following is true?
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,a. An infant will have a slower heart rate than an adult
b. The elderly have better temperature sensations
c. There are more sweat glands in an elderly person
d. There is less thirst perception in the elderly - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. there is less
thirst perception in the elderly
Which of the following is true?
a. Women snore more than men
b. Men have higher calcium levels
c. Women have a lower hemoglobin than men
d. Men have a lower creatinine level than women - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔c. Women
have a lower hemoglobin than men
An increase in normal adaptive response to the decreased availability of oxygen
at high altitude is termed which?
a. Circadian
b. Acclimatization
c. Population
d. Diurnal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔b. Acclimatization
What does it mean when the cause of the disease is unwanted medical
treatment?
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,a. Idiopathic
b. Ecogenetic
c. Genotypical
d. Iatrogenic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. Iatrogenic
Which term is used for the first two months of life?
a. Infancy
b. Childhood
c. Prenatal
d. Neonatal - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. Neonatal
Which is an objectively identifiable aberration of the disease?
a. Symptom
b. Syndrome
c. Stage
d. Sign - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. Sign
Which of the following is true regarding catecholamines?
a. They are from the parasympathetic nervous system
b. They cross the blood brain barrier
c. They include epinephrine and norepinephrine
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, d. They cause of decrease in heart rate - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔c. They include
epinephrine and norepinephrine
Which of the following is a true statement?
a. Antidiuretic hormone is not important for blood volume regulation
b. Endorphins increase with stress, resulting in a decrease in pain perception
c. Epinephrine and cortisol act very differently
d. Cortisol negates epinephrine's activity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔b. Endorphins increase
with stress, resulting in a decrease in pain perception
By what mechanism do lipid molecules cross cell membranes?
a. They use channel proteins as a membrane transport system
b. They are transported across the plasma membrane by endocytosis and
exocytosis
c. They use voltage-gated ion channels
d. They cross by diffusion - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔d. They cross by diffusion
Which of the following metabolic processes is a component of anabolic
metabolism?
a. Protein synthesis
b. Glycolysis
c. Citric acid cycle
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