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Bonewit Chapt 2
Medical Asepsis and the OSHA STandard- Karly Hayes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a microorganism that needs oxygen to live & grow | AEROBE |
| A microorganism that grows best in the absence of oxygen | ANAEROBE |
| An agent that inhibits the growth of or kills microorganisms | ANTISEPTIC |
| Free from infection or pathogens; the actions practiced to make & maintain an area or object free from infection or pathogens | ASEPSIS |
| Slender, hairlike projections that constantly beat toward the outside to remove microorganismas from the body | CILIA |
| To soil or to make impure. An aseptic object becomes "this" when it touches something that is not clean | CONTAMINATE |
| The use of physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or destroy pathogens on a surface or item to the point where they are no longer capable of transmitting infectious particles; the surface or item is rendered safe for handling, use or disposal | DECONTAMINATION |
| The process of cleaning or sanitizing the hands | HAND HYGIENE |
| The condition in which the body, or part of it , is invasded by a pathogen | INFECTION |
| Practices that are employed to reduce the number & hinder the transmission of pathogens | MEDICAL ASEPSIS |
| A microscopic plant or animal | MICROORGANISM |
| Skin that has a break in the surface. It includes, but is not limited to, abrasions, cuts, hangnails, papercuts, & burns | NONINTACT SKIN |
| A microorganism that does not normally produce diseases | NONPATHOGEN |
| An infection that results from a defective immune system that cannot defend the body from pathogens normally found in the enviroment | OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION |
| The temperature at which an organism grows best | OPTIMUM GROWTH TEMPERATURE |
| Taken into the body through the piering of the skin barrier or mucous membranes, such as through needlesticks, human bites, cuts & abrasions | PARENTERAL |
| A disease-producing microorganism | PATHOGEN |
| Relating to the period shortly before and after birth | PERINATAL |
| The degree to which a solution is acidic or basic | pH |
| Treatment administered to an individual after exposure to an infectious diseases to prevent the diease | POSTEXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS (PEP) |
| Medical waste that poses a threat to health and safety | REGULATED MECIAL WASTE (RMW) |
| The organism that becomes infected by a pathogen & serves as a source of tansfer of the pathogen to others | RESERVOIR HOST |
| Harmless, nonpathogenic microorganisms that normally reside on the skin & usually do not cause dieases; alson known as normal flora | RESIDENT FLORA |
| Easily affected; lacking resistance | SUSCEPTIBLE |
| Microorganisms that reside on the superficial skin layers & are picked up in the course of daily activites. They are often pathogenic but can be removed easily form the skin by sanitizing the hands | TRANSIENT FLORA |