Vocabulary hesi

• Volume

  Amount of space occupied by a fluid
• Vital

  Essential
• Virus:

  Microscopic infectious agent capable of replicating only in living cells
• Virulent

  Extremely harmful and severe
• Vascular

  relate to blood vessels
• Urinate

  Excrete or expel urine
• Ubiquitous

  Being or seeming to be everywhere at once
• Triage

  process used to determine the priority of treatment
• Trauma

  injury, wound
• Transmission:

  transfer
• Transdermal:

  crossing through the skin
• toxic

  causing harm, poisonous
• Therapeutic

  relate to the treatment of a disease or a disorder
• Syndrome

  group of symtoms that, reflect a specific disease or disorder
• symptom:

  an indication of a problem
• Symmetric

  being equal or the same in size
• suppress:

  to stop or subdue
• Supplement

  to take in addition to or to complete
• sublingual

  under the tongue
• subcutaneous

  under the skin
• status

  condition
• retain

  to hold or keep
• respiration

  inhalation or exhalation of the air
• residual

  remaining, continuing
• Renal

  relate to kidneys
• Recur

  to occur again
• Rationale

  the underlying reason
• Prognosis

  the anticipated or expected course or outcome
• Priority

  of great importance
• Primary

  most significant
• Preexisting

  already present
• predispose

  to make more susceptible or more likely to occur
• Precipitous

  rapid, uncontrolled
• precaution

  preventive measure
• potential

  capable of occurring or likely to occur
• potent

  producing a strong effect
• pathology

  processes, causes, and effects of a disease
• Pathogenic

  causing or able to cause disease
• Patent

  open
• Parameter

  limit, a characteristic or constant factor