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chapter 3 Bonwit
Medical Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Antiseptic | A substance that kills disease producing MO'S But Not Their Spores |
Autoclave | An apparatus for the sterilization of materials using steam under pressure |
Contaminate | To soil, stain or pollute , To MAKE Impure |
Critical Item | An item that comes in contact with sterile tissue or the vascular system |
Decontamination | The use of physcial/chemical means to remove or destroy pathogens that cause disease |
Detergent | An agent that cleanses by emulsifying dirt and oil |
Disinfectant | An agent used to desstroy Pathogenic MO'S But not their spores |
Hazardous Chemical | Any chemical that presents a threat to the health and saftey to a individual coming into contact with it |
Incubate | To provide proper conditions to the growth and development |
Load | The articles that are being sterilized |
Material Safety Data Sheet ( MSDS ) | A Sheet that provides info regarding a chemical its hazards and measures to prevent injury and illness |
Noncritical Item | An item that comes into contact with intact skin but not mucus membrane |
Sanitization | A process to remove organic matter from a article and to reduce the number of MO'S To a safe level |
Semi-critical Item | An Item that comes into contact with nonintact skin or intact mucus membrane |
Spore | A Hard thick walled capsule fromed by some bacteria |
Sterilization | The process of destroying all forms of Microbial lIFE Including Bacteria Spores |
Thermolabile | Easily Affected Or Changed By Heat |