Medical Asepsis-OSHA Totitafout
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| Aerobe | A microorganism that needs oxygen to live & grow
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| Anaerobe | A microorganism that grows best in absence of oxygen
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| Antiseptic | An agent that inhibits the growth of or kills microorganism
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| Asepsis | Free from infection or pathogens; the actions practiced to make & maintain an area or object free from infections or pathogens
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| Cilia | Slender, hairlike projections that constantly beat toward the outside to remove microorganisms from the body.
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| Contaminate | To soil or to make impure. An anseptic object becomes this when it touches something that is not clean.
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| Decontamination | The use of physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or destory pathogens on a surface or item to the point where they re no longer cspable of trasmitting infections particles; the surface or item is rendered safe for handling use or disposal
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| Hand Hygiene | The process of cleansing or sanitizing the hands
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| Infection | The condition in which the body, or part of it, is invaded by a pathogen
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| Medical Asepsis | Practices that are employed to reduce the number 7 hinder the transmission of oathogens
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| Microorganism | A microscopic plant or animal
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| Nonintact Skin | Skin that has a break in the surface. it includes, but is not limited to, abrasions, cuts, hangnails, paper cuts, & burns
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| Nonpathogen | A microorganism that does not normally produce disease
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| Opportunistic infection | An infection that results from a defectivwe immune system that cannot defend the body from pathogens normally found in the environment
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| Optimum growth temperature | The temperature at which an organism grows best
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| Parenteral | Taken into the body through the piercing of the skin barrier of mucous membranes, such as through needlesticks,human bites, cuts & abrasions.
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| Pathogen | A disease-producing microorganism
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| Perinatal | Relating to the period shortly before & after birth.
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| PH | The degree to which a solution is acidic or basic
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| Postexposure Prophylaxis | Treatment administered to an individual after exposure to an infectious disease to prevent the disease
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| Regulated Meical waste | Medical waste that poses a threat to health & safety
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| Reservoir Host | The organism that becomes infected by a pathogen & serves as a source of transfer of the pothogen to others
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| Resident Flora | Harmless, Nonpathogenic microogranisms that normally reside on the skin & usually do not cause disease; also known as normal flora.
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| Susceptible | Easily affected;lacking resistance
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| Transient Flora | Microorganism that reside on the superfical skin layers & are picked up in the course of daily activites. they are often pathogenic but can be removed easily from the skin by sanitizing the hands
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