Ch 15 Vocab

Question 0

Biohazardous waste

Answer 0

Times contaminated with blood, fluids, secretions, or excretions

Question 1

Asepsis

Answer 1

Free of disease-producing microbes

Question 2

Carrier

Answer 2

A human or animal that is reservoir for microbes but does not have the signs and symptoms of infection

Question 3

Communicable disease; contagious disease

Answer 3

A disease caused by pathogens that spreads easily

Question 4

Contamination

Answer 4

The process of becoming unclean

Question 5

Disinfection

Answer 5

The process if destroying pathogens

Question 6

Germicide

Answer 6

A disinfectant applied to the skin, tissues, or non-living objects

Question 7

Health care-associated infection (HAI)

Answer 7

An infection that develops in a person card for in any setting where health care is given; the infection is related to receiving health care

Question 8

Immunity

Answer 8

Protection against a certain diseas

Question 9

Infection

Answer 9

A disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body

Question 10

Infection control

Answer 10

Practices and procedures that prevent the spread of infection

Question 11

Medical asepsis; clean technique

Answer 11

Practices used to remove or destroy pathogens and to prevent their spread from one person to another person or place

Question 12

Microorganism; microbe

Answer 12

A small living plant of animal seem only with a microscope

Question 13

Non-pathogen

Answer 13

A microbe that does not usually cause an infection

Question 14

Normal flora

Answer 14

Microbes that live and grow in a certain area

Question 15

Pathogen

Answer 15

A microbe that us harmful and can cause an infection

Question 16

Reservoir; host

Answer 16

The environment in which a microbe lives and grows

Question 17

Spore

Answer 17

A bacterium protected by a hard shell

Question 18

Sterile

Answer 18

The absence of all microbes

Question 19

Sterile field

Answer 19

A work area free of all pathogens and non-pathogens (including spores)

Question 20

Sterilization

Answer 20

The process of destroying all microbes

Question 21

Surgical asepsis; sterile technique

Answer 21

The practices that keep times free if all microbes

Question 22

Vaccination

Answer 22

Giving a vaccine to produce immunity against an infectious disease

Question 23

Vaccine

Answer 23

A preparation continuing dead or weakened microbes