Question | Answer |
a microorganism that needs oxygen to live & grow | AEROBE |
A 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 practiced to make & maintain an area or object free from infection or pathogens | ASEPSIS |
Slender, hairlike projections that constantly beat toward the outside to remove microorganismas 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 physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or destroy pathogens on a surface or item to the point where they are no longer capable of transmitting infectious particles; the surface or item is rendered safe for handling, use or disposal | DECONTAMINATION |
The process of cleaning or sanitizing the hands | HAND HYGIENE |
The condition in which the body, or part of it , is invasded by a pathogen | INFECTION |
Practices that are employed to reduce the number & hinder the transmission of pathogens | MEDICAL ASEPSIS |
A microscopic plant or animal | MICROORGANISM |
Skin that has a break in the surface. It includes, but is not limited to, abrasions, cuts, hangnails, papercuts, & burns | NONINTACT SKIN |
A microorganism that does not normally produce diseases | NONPATHOGEN |
An infection that results from a defective immune system that cannot 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 through the piering of the skin barrier or mucous membranes, such as through needlesticks, human bites, cuts & abrasions | PARENTERAL |
A disease-producing microorganism | PATHOGEN |
Relating to the period shortly before and after birth | PERINATAL |
The degree to which a solution is acidic or basic | pH |
Treatment administered to an individual after exposure to an infectious diseases to prevent the diease | POSTEXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS (PEP) |
Medical waste that poses a threat to health and safety | REGULATED MECIAL WASTE (RMW) |
The organism that becomes infected by a pathogen & serves as a source of tansfer of the pathogen to others | RESERVOIR HOST |
Harmless, nonpathogenic microorganisms that normally reside on the skin & usually do not cause dieases; alson 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 activites. They are often pathogenic but can be removed easily form the skin by sanitizing the hands | TRANSIENT FLORA |