HESI PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXIT EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
BANK WITH ALL VERSIONS 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
1.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: a. positive feedback
2.What organ shrinks with age?
a. Prostate
b. Gums
c. Heart
d. All of the above: b. gums
3.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
d. There is less thirst perception in the elderly: d. there is less
thirst perception in the elderly
4.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: c. Women
,HESI PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXIT EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
BANK WITH ALL VERSIONS 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
have a lower hemoglobin than men
5.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: b. Acclimatization
6.What does it mean when the cause of the disease is
unwanted medical treatment?
a. Idiopathic
b. Ecogenetic
c. Genotypical
d. Iatrogenic: d. Iatrogenic
7.Which term is used for the first two months of life?
a. Infancy
,HESI PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXIT EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
BANK WITH ALL VERSIONS 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
b. Childhood
c. Prenatal
d. Neonatal: d. Neonatal
8.Which is an objectively identifiable aberration of the disease?
a. Symptom
b. Syndrome
c. Stage
d. Sign: d. Sign
9.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: c. They include
epinephrine and norepi- nephrine
10.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 pai
perception
c. Epinephrine and cortisol act very differently
d. Cortisol negates epinephrine's activity: b. Endorphins increase
with stress, resulting in a decrease in pain perception
11.By what mechanism do lipid molecules cross cell membranes?
, HESI PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXIT EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
BANK WITH ALL VERSIONS 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
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: d. They cross by diffusion
12.Which of the following metabolic processes is a component
of anabolic metabolism?
a. Protein synthesis
b. Glycolysis
c. Citric acid cycle
d. Oxidative phosphorylation: a. Protein synthesis
13.Which of the following electrochemical mechanism is
responsible for maintaining cell volume?
a. The calcium pump
b. Glucose transporters
c. The sodium-potassium pump
d. ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters: c. The sodium-
potassium pump
BANK WITH ALL VERSIONS 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
1.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: a. positive feedback
2.What organ shrinks with age?
a. Prostate
b. Gums
c. Heart
d. All of the above: b. gums
3.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
d. There is less thirst perception in the elderly: d. there is less
thirst perception in the elderly
4.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: c. Women
,HESI PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXIT EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
BANK WITH ALL VERSIONS 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
have a lower hemoglobin than men
5.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: b. Acclimatization
6.What does it mean when the cause of the disease is
unwanted medical treatment?
a. Idiopathic
b. Ecogenetic
c. Genotypical
d. Iatrogenic: d. Iatrogenic
7.Which term is used for the first two months of life?
a. Infancy
,HESI PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXIT EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
BANK WITH ALL VERSIONS 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
b. Childhood
c. Prenatal
d. Neonatal: d. Neonatal
8.Which is an objectively identifiable aberration of the disease?
a. Symptom
b. Syndrome
c. Stage
d. Sign: d. Sign
9.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: c. They include
epinephrine and norepi- nephrine
10.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 pai
perception
c. Epinephrine and cortisol act very differently
d. Cortisol negates epinephrine's activity: b. Endorphins increase
with stress, resulting in a decrease in pain perception
11.By what mechanism do lipid molecules cross cell membranes?
, HESI PATHOPHYSIOLOGY EXIT EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
BANK WITH ALL VERSIONS 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
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: d. They cross by diffusion
12.Which of the following metabolic processes is a component
of anabolic metabolism?
a. Protein synthesis
b. Glycolysis
c. Citric acid cycle
d. Oxidative phosphorylation: a. Protein synthesis
13.Which of the following electrochemical mechanism is
responsible for maintaining cell volume?
a. The calcium pump
b. Glucose transporters
c. The sodium-potassium pump
d. ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters: c. The sodium-
potassium pump
