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Tortora ch-7 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sterilization | the removal or destruction of all forms of microbial life |
| commercial sterilization | removal of Clostridium botulinum |
| disinfection | removal of pathogenic organisms |
| antisepsis | removal of microbes from living tissue |
| degerming | removal of microbes from a limited area such as the skin around an injection site |
| sanitization | treatment intended to lower microbial counts on eating and drinking utensils to safe public health levels |
| what does the suffix -cide mean? | to kill |
| what does the suffix -stasis mean? | to stop or steady |
| thermal death point | the lowest temperature at which all the microorganisms in a particular liquid suspension will be killed in 10 minutes |
| thermal death time | minimal lenght of time for all bacteria to be killed at a given temperature |
| decimal reduction time | the time, in minutes, in which 90% of a population of bactera at a given temperature will be killed |