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Preventing Infection
Key terms - HST I Unit 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asepsis | Being free of disease producing microbes |
| Biohazardous Waste | Items contaminated with blood, body fluids, secretions or excretions |
| carrier | a human or animal that is a reservoir for microbes but does not have signs and symptoms of infection |
| clean technique | medical asepsis |
| communicable disease | a disease cdaused by pathogens that spread easily |
| contagious disease | communicable disease |
| contamination | the process of becoming unclean |
| disinfection | the process of destroying pathogens |
| germicide | a disinfectant applied to the skin |
| immunity | Protection against a certain disease |
| infection | a disease resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body |
| medical asepsis | Practices used to remove or destroy pathogens and to prevent their spread from one person or place to another person or place |
| microbe | a microorganism |
| microorganism | a small living plant or animal seen only with a microscope |
| non-pathogen | a microbe that does not usually cause an infection |
| normal flora | microbes that live and grow in a certain area |
| nosocomial infection | an infection acquired during a stay in a health agency |
| pathogen | a microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection |
| reservoir | the environment in which a microbe lives and grows |
| spore | a bacterium protected by a hard shell |
| sterile | the absence of all microbes |
| sterile field | a work area free of all pathogens and non-pathogens |
| sterile technique | surgical asepsis |
| sterilization | the process of destroying all microbes |
| surgical asepsis | the practices that keep items free of all microbes |
| vaccination | the administration of a vaccine to produce immunity against an infectious disease |
| vaccine | a preparation containing dead or weakened microbes |
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