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Bonewit Chapter 2
Asepsis & OSHA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aerobe | a micrrorganism that needs oxygen to live & grow |
| Anaerobe | A miccrorganism that grows best in the absence of oxygen. |
| Antiseptic | An agent that inhibits the growth of or kill MO. |
| Asepsis | Free from infection or pathgens; the actions practiced to make & maintain an area or object free from infection or pathogens |
| Cilia | Slender, Hairlike projections that constantly beat toward the outside to remove MO from the body |
| Contaminate | To soil or to make impure.Aseptic object becomes "this" when it touches something that is not clean. |
| 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. |
| Hand Hygiene | The process of cleansing or sanitizing the hands. |
| Infection | The conditon in which the body, or part or it, is invaded by a pathogen. |
| Medical Asepsis | Practices that are employes to reduce the number & hinder the transmisson of pathogens |
| MO | A microscope plant and animals |
| Nonintact skin | Skin that has a break in the surface. It includes,but is not limited to, abrasions. |
| Nonpathogen | A MO that does not normally produce disease. |
| Opportunistic Infection | An infection that results from a defective immune system that cannot defend the body from pathogens normally found in the enviroment. |
| Optimum Growth Temperture | The temperture at which an organism grows best. |
| Parenteral | Taken into the body through the piercing of the skin barrier or mucous membranes. |
| Pathogen | A disease-producing MO. |
| Perital | Relating to the period shortly before & after brith. |
| Postexposure Prohylaxis (PEP) | Treatment administered to an individal after exposure to an infectious disease to prevent the diesase. |
| Regulated Medical Waste (RMW) | Medical waste that poses a threat to health & safety. |
| Reservoir host | The organism that becames infected by a pathogen & serves as a source of transfer of the pathogen to others. |
| Resident Flora | Harmless, nonpathogen MO that normally reside on the skin & usally do not cause disease; also known as normal flora. |
| Susceptible | Easily affected; lacking resistance. |
| Transit Flora | MO that reside on the superfical skin layers & are picked up in course of daily actives. |
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