Vocabulary (V's)

Question 1

Apparatus that prevents the back-siphoning of contaminated liquids into potable water supple likes or plumbing cross-connections within the preparation room.

Answer 1

Vacuum Breaker

Question 2

Specially designed tubing which attached to the outlet of a gravity percolator.

Answer 2

Valentine Tube

Question 3

(1632-1732) He made his own microscopes which were a superior to any of that time. He gave the first complete account of the red blood cell. He demonstrated the capillary connections between arteries and veins.

Answer 3

Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek
“Father of Bacteriology”
“Father of Microbiology”

Question 4

A drug resistant bacterium found in feces and open wounds. It can also be found associated with nasogastric tubes often in patients who have had long hospitalization.

Answer 4

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci aka VRE

Question 5

Staphyloccus aureuspathogens that have become resistant to the drugs methicillin and vancomycin.

Answer 5

Vancomycin-Resistanct Staphylococcus Aureus aka VRSA

Question 6

The use of the blood vascular system of the body for temporary preservation, disinfection and restoration; accomplished through injection of embalming solutions into the arteries and drainage from the veins.

Answer 6

Vascular Embalming aka Arterial Embalming

Question 7

Liquids that serve as a solvent for the numerous ingredients that are incorporated into embalming fluids.

Answer 7

Vehicle

Question 8

Located toward the front of the body.

Answer 8

Ventral aka Anterior

Question 9

A narrow, worm-shaped tube connected to the cecum.

Answer 9

Vermiform Appendix

Question 10

Dizziness characterized by a sensation of whirling movement.

Answer 10

Vertigo

Question 11

Blister-like elevation of skin containing serous fluid.

Answer 11

Vesicle

Question 12

Internal organs enclosed withing a cavity.

Answer 12

Viscera

Question 13

The resistance to the flow of a liquid; the thickness of a liquid.

Answer 13

Viscosity