Ch 15 Vocab Flashcards
(24 cards)
Biohazardous waste
Times contaminated with blood, fluids, secretions, or excretions
Asepsis
Free of disease-producing microbes
Carrier
A human or animal that is reservoir for microbes but does not have the signs and symptoms of infection
Communicable disease; contagious disease
A disease caused by pathogens that spreads easily
Contamination
The process of becoming unclean
Disinfection
The process if destroying pathogens
Germicide
A disinfectant applied to the skin, tissues, or non-living objects
Health care-associated infection (HAI)
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
Immunity
Protection against a certain diseas
Infection
A disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body
Infection control
Practices and procedures that prevent the spread of infection
Medical asepsis; clean technique
Practices used to remove or destroy pathogens and to prevent their spread from one person to another person or place
Microorganism; microbe
A small living plant of animal seem only with a microscope
Non-pathogen
A microbe that does not usually cause an infection
Normal flora
Microbes that live and grow in a certain area
Pathogen
A microbe that us harmful and can cause an infection
Reservoir; host
The environment in which a microbe lives and grows
Spore
A bacterium protected by a hard shell
Sterile
The absence of all microbes
Sterile field
A work area free of all pathogens and non-pathogens (including spores)
Sterilization
The process of destroying all microbes
Surgical asepsis; sterile technique
The practices that keep times free if all microbes
Vaccination
Giving a vaccine to produce immunity against an infectious disease
Vaccine
A preparation continuing dead or weakened microbes
