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antiseptic | substance that kills disease-producing MO's but not their spores. An antiseptic is usually applied to living tissue |
autoclave | apparatus for the sterilization of materials, using steam under pressure |
contaminate | to soil, stain, or polluted; to make impure |
critical item | item that comes in contact with sterile tissue of the vascular system |
decontamination | use of physical or chemical means to remove or destroy pathogens on an item so that is no longer capable of transmitting disease; this makes the item safe to handle |
detergent | agent that cleanses by emulsifying dirt and oil |
disinfectant | agent used to destroy pathogenic MO's but not their spores. Disinfectants are usually applied to inanimate objects |
hazardous chemical | any chemical that presents a threat to the health and safety of an individual coming into contact with it |
incubate | to provide proper conditions for growth and development |
load | articles that are being sterilized |
Material Safety Data Sheet(MSDS) | sheet that provides info. regarding a chemical, its hazards, and measures to take to prevent injury and illness when handling the chemical |
noncritical item | item that comes into contact with intact skin, but not mucous membranes |
sanitization | process to remove organic matter from an article and to reduce the number of MO's to a safe level as determined by public health requirements |
semicritical item | item that comes into contact with nonintact skin or intact mucous membranes |
spore | hard, thick-walled capsule formed by some bacteria that contains only the essential parts of the protoplasm of the bacterial cell |
sterilization | process of destroying all forms of microbial life, including bacterial spores |
thermolabile | easily affected or changed by heat |