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HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY FINAL EXAM
NEWEST 2025/ 2026 COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||LATEST EXAM!!!
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
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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
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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. 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
HESI ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY FINAL EXAM
NEWEST 2025/ 2026 COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||LATEST EXAM!!!
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
,2|Page
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
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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. 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
