Question | Answer |
Antiseptic | A substance that kills disease-producing microorganism but not their spores. |
Autoclave | An apparatus for the sterilization of materials. |
Contaminate | To soil,stain,or pollute,or make impure. |
Decontaminate | The use of physical or chemical means to remove or destroy patheogens on an item so that it is no longer capable of transmitting disease,this makes this item safe to handle. |
Disenfectant | An agent used to destroy patheogenic microorganisms but not their spores. |
Detergant | an agent that cleans by emulis |
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 | The articles that are being sterilized. |
Material safety data sheet | A sheet that provides information regarding a chemical,its hazards,and measures to take to prevent injury and illness when handling the chemical. |
Noncritical item | An item that comes into contact with intact skin,but not mucus membranes. |
Sanitization | A process to remove organic matter from an article to reduce the number of microorganisms to a safe level. |
Semicritical item | An item that comes into contact with nonitnact skin or intact mucous membranes. |
spore | A hard thick-walled capsule formed by some bacteria that contains only the essential parts of the protoplasm of the bacteria cell. |
sterialization | The process of destroying all forms of microbial life,including bacterial spores. |
Thermolabile | Easily affected or changed by heat. |