Asepsis & OSHA
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| Aerobe | a micrrorganism that needs oxygen to live & grow
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| Anaerobe | A miccrorganism that grows best in the absence of oxygen.
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| Antiseptic | An agent that inhibits the growth of or kill MO.
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| Asepsis | Free from infection or pathgens; the actions practiced to make & maintain an area or object free from infection or pathogens
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| Cilia | Slender, Hairlike projections that constantly beat toward the outside to remove MO from the body
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| Contaminate | To soil or to make impure.Aseptic 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,inactive, or destory pathogens on a surface or item to the point where they are no longer capable of transmitting infectious particles.
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| Hand Hygiene | The process of cleansing or sanitizing the hands.
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| Infection | The conditon in which the body, or part or it, is invaded by a pathogen.
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| Medical Asepsis | Practices that are employes to reduce the number & hinder the transmisson of pathogens
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| MO | A microscope plant and animals
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| Nonintact skin | Skin that has a break in the surface. It includes,but is not limited to, abrasions.
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| Nonpathogen | A MO that does not normally produce disease.
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| Opportunistic Infection | An infection that results from a defective immune system that cannot defend the body from pathogens normally found in the enviroment.
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| Optimum Growth Temperture | The temperture at which an organism grows best.
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| Parenteral | Taken into the body through the piercing of the skin barrier or mucous membranes.
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| Pathogen | A disease-producing MO.
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| Perital | Relating to the period shortly before & after brith.
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| Postexposure Prohylaxis (PEP) | Treatment administered to an individal after exposure to an infectious disease to prevent the diesase.
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| Regulated Medical Waste (RMW) | Medical waste that poses a threat to health & safety.
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| Reservoir host | The organism that becames infected by a pathogen & serves as a source of transfer of the pathogen to others.
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| Resident Flora | Harmless, nonpathogen MO that normally reside on the skin & usally do not cause disease; also known as normal flora.
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| Susceptible | Easily affected; lacking resistance.
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| Transit Flora | MO that reside on the superfical skin layers & are picked up in course of daily actives.
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