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Medical Asepsis
osha standards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| microorganism that needs oxygen to live & grow | Areobe |
| 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 practices to make & maintain an area or object free from infection or pathogens | asepsis |
| slender hairlike projection that constantly beat toward the outsideto remove micoorganisms 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 phycical or chemical means to remove inactivte or destroy pathogens on a surface or items to the point where they are no longer capable of transmitting infections particales | Decontamination |
| The condition in which the body or part of it is invaded by a pathogen | infection |
| process of cleansing or sanitizing the hands | hand hygiene |
| practices that are employed to reduce the number & hinder the transmitssion or pathogens | medical asepsis |
| microscopic plant or animal | microorganism |
| skin that has a break in the surface. It includes, but is not limited to abrasions cuts hangnails paper cuts | nonintact skin |
| microorganism that does not normally produce diseases | nonpathogen |
| infection that results from a defective immune system that can not 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 throught the piercing of the skin barrier or mucous membranes, such as through needlesticks, human bites cuts and abrasions | parenteral |
| a disease-producing microorganism | pathogen |
| relating to the period shortly before and after birth | perinatal |
| treatment administered to an individual after exposure to and infectious disease to prevent the disease | postexposure prophylaxis (pep) |
| medical waste that poses a threat to health & safety | regulated medical waste (rmw) |
| organism that becomes infected by a pathogen and seves as a source of transfer of the pathogen to others | reservior host |
| harmless nonpathogeic microorganisms that normally reside on skin and ushually do not cause disease, also 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 activities. they are often pathogenic but can be removed easliy from the skin by sanitizing the hands | transient flora |
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Breanneharber
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