HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM
HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026
COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
Which of the following is NOT a type of dead space?
a. Anatomic
b. Cartilaginous
c. Alveolar
d. Physiologic - Answer ✓✓b. Cartilaginous
Compliance is a measure of:
a. How easily the lung can be inflated
b. How easily gas exchange occurs at the alveoli
c. How much dead space the lung has
A+ 1
, HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM
d. Shunting - Answer ✓✓a. How easily the lung can be inflated
Which of the following increase lung compliance?
a. Pneumonia
b. Emphysema.
c. ARDS
d. Pulmonary edema - Answer ✓✓b. Emphysema
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?
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
A+ 2
, HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM
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?
a. Idiopathic
b. Ecogenetic
c. Genotypical
d. Iatrogenic - Answer ✓✓d. Iatrogenic
Which term is used for the first two months of life?
a. Infancy
A+ 3
, HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM
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
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+ 4
FINAL EXAM
HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026
COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
Which of the following is NOT a type of dead space?
a. Anatomic
b. Cartilaginous
c. Alveolar
d. Physiologic - Answer ✓✓b. Cartilaginous
Compliance is a measure of:
a. How easily the lung can be inflated
b. How easily gas exchange occurs at the alveoli
c. How much dead space the lung has
A+ 1
, HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM
d. Shunting - Answer ✓✓a. How easily the lung can be inflated
Which of the following increase lung compliance?
a. Pneumonia
b. Emphysema.
c. ARDS
d. Pulmonary edema - Answer ✓✓b. Emphysema
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?
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
A+ 2
, HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM
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?
a. Idiopathic
b. Ecogenetic
c. Genotypical
d. Iatrogenic - Answer ✓✓d. Iatrogenic
Which term is used for the first two months of life?
a. Infancy
A+ 3
, HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
FINAL EXAM
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
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+ 4
