medical terminlogy c 2 &3
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- aerobe
- microrganisn that need oxygen to grow
- anaerobes
- absence of oxygen grows best
- ANTISEPIC
- AN AGENT THAT INHIBITS GROWTH OR KILLS MICRORGANISIMS
- ASPESIS
-
FREE FROM INFECTION AND PATHOGENS
TO MAKE FREE - CILIA
- SLENDER HAIRLLIKE PROJECTION IN NOSE
- CONTAMINATE
- TO SOIL, MAKE IMPURE
- DECONTAMINATE
- USE OF CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL MEANS OF REMOVING PATHOGENS WHERE THEY ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO TRANSFER INFECTION
- HAND HYGIENE
- THE PROCESS OF CLEANING AND SANTIZING HANDS
- INFECTION
- THE CONDITION OF THE BODY INVADED BY PATHOGENS
- MEDICAL ASEPSIS
- PRACTICES THAT ARE EMPLOYED TO REDUCE THE NUMBER AND HINDER TRANFER OF PATHOGENS
- MICRORGANISM
- A MIRCOSCOPIC PLANT OR ANIMALS
- NONINTACT SKIN
- CUT, ABRASION, PAPER CUTS HANG NAILS
- NONPATHOGEN
- ONE THAT NORMALLY DOES NOT PRODUCE INFECTION
- OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION
- A INFECTION THAT OCCURS WHEN A DEFECTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN"T FIGHT IT
- OPTIMUM GROWTH TEMPERATURE
- A TEMPERATURE AT WHICH A PATHOGEN CAN GROW
- PARENTERAL
- TAKEN INTO THE BODY THROUGH THE PIERCING OF THE SKIN NEEDLESTICKS, HUMAN BITES CUTS
- PATHOGEN
- A DISEASE PRODUCING MICROORGANISM
- PERINATEL
- RELATING TO THE PERIOD AFTER CHILDBIRTH
- pH
- THE DEGREE OF WHICH A SOLUTION IS ACIDIC OR BASIC
- POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS PEP
- THE TREATMENT GIVEN AFTER EXPOSURE TO INFECTION
- REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE
- MEDICAL WASTE THAT POSES A THREAT TO HEALTH AND SAFETY
- RESERVIOR HOST
- THE ORGANISM THAT BECOMES INFECTED BY THE PATHOGEN SERVES AS A SOURCE OF TRANSFER
- RESIDENT FLORA
- HARMLESS NONPATHOGENS MICROORGANISM THAT LIVE ON THE SKIN. USUALLY DO NOT CAUSE INFECTION
- SUSCEPITIBLE
- EASILY AFFECTED, LACKING RESISITANCE
- TRANCIENT FLORA
- MICROORGANISM THAT RESIDE ON THE SUPERFICIAL LAYERS OF THE SKIN THAT ARE PICKED UP
- ANTISEPTIC
-
A SUBSTANCE THAT KILLS DISEASED MICROORGANISM BUT NOT THEIR SPORES
APPLIED TO TISSUE - CRITICAL ITEM
- AN ITEM THAR COMES IN CONTACT WITH STIRILE TISSUE OR VASCULAR SYSTEM
- DECONTAMINATION
- THE USE OF CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL MEANS TO DESTROY BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS SO THEY ARE NO LONGER CAPABLE TO TRANSMIT INFECTION
- DETERGENT
- AN AGENT THAT CLEANS AND EMULSIFING OIL AND DIRT
- INCUBATE
- TO PROVIDE PROPER CONDITIONS FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
- LOAD
- THE ITEMS THAT ARE BEING STIRILIZED
-
MATERIAL SAFTY DATA SHEET
MSDS - A SHEETS THAT PROVIDES INFORMATION REGARDING THE CHEMICAL, HAZARDS AND WHAT IT TAKES TO USE IT SAFELY
- NONCRITICAL ITEM
- AN ITEM THAT COMES IN CONTACT WITH INTACT SKIN BUT NOT MEMBRANES
- SANITIZATION
- PROCESS TO REMOVE ORGANIC MATTER FROM AN ITEM TO REDUCE THE MICROORGANISM TO A SAFER LEVEL
- SEMICRITICAL
- AN ITEM THAT COME IN CONTACT WITH NONINTACT SKIN OR MUCUS MEMBRANES
- SPORE
- A HARD THICK LIKE CAPSULE FORMED BY SOME BACTERIA THAT CONTAINS ONLY THE ESSENTIAL PARTS OF THE PROTOPLASM OF THE BACTERIAL CELL
- STERILIZATION
- THE PROCESS OF DESTROYING ALL FORMS OF MICROBIAL LIFE, INCLUDING BACTERIAL SPORES
- THERMOLABILE
- EASILY AFFECTED OR CHANGED BY HEAT