Nail Design Chapter 5 Vocabulary
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- Regulation
- guidelines set by local, state and federal agencies
- OSHA
- Occupational Safety a nd Health Administration: regulates and enforces safety and health standards to protect employees in the workplace
- MSDS
- Material Safety Data Sheet: supplied by manufacturers for all products sold
- EPA
- Environmental Protection Agency: licenses different type of disinfectants
- Tuberculocidal
- disinfectants provent to kill bacteria that causes tuberculosis
- Laws
- are written by the legislature and determine the scope of practice and establish guidelines
- Rules
- established guidelines from regulatory agencies; establish specific standards of conduct
- Prevention
- advance measures taken against something probable or possible
- Infection Control
- Steps taken to prevent the spread of disease and infection
- Infectious
- capable of causing infeciton
- Bactericidal
- disinfectants proven to kill potentially infectious bacteria
- Virucidal
- didinfectants proven to kill potentially infectious viruses
- Fungicidal
- disinfectants proven to kill potentially infectious fungi
- Bacteria
- one-celled micro-organisms with both plant and animal characteristics
- pathogenic bacteria
- classification of bacteria that are harmful and disease causing; most common cause of infection and disease in humans
- non-pathogenic bacteria
- classification of bacteria that are harmless, non disease-causing and can be beneficial
- cocci
- round shaped bacteria
- staphylococci
- pus forming bacteria that grow in clusters like a bunch of grapes:abscesses, pustules, boils
- streptococci
- pus forming bacteria arranged in a curved line like a string of beads: strep thoat, blood poisining
- diplococci
- round bacteria that grow in pairs and cause diseases such as pneumonia
- bacilli
- short rod shaped bacteria, most common type: tetanus, typhoid, tuberculosis, diptheria