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

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Vacuum Breaker

2
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Specially designed tubing which attached to the outlet of a gravity percolator.

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Valentine Tube

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(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.

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

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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.

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Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci aka VRE

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

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Vancomycin-Resistanct Staphylococcus Aureus aka VRSA

6
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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.

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Vascular Embalming aka Arterial Embalming

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

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Vehicle

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Located toward the front of the body.

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Ventral aka Anterior

9
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A narrow, worm-shaped tube connected to the cecum.

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Vermiform Appendix

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Dizziness characterized by a sensation of whirling movement.

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Vertigo

11
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Blister-like elevation of skin containing serous fluid.

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Vesicle

12
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Internal organs enclosed withing a cavity.

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Viscera

13
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The resistance to the flow of a liquid; the thickness of a liquid.

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Viscosity