Chapter12vocbulary

Question 1

Antibiotic

Answer 1

A drug that kill certain pathogens.

Question 2

Asepsis

Answer 2

Being free of disease-producing microbes.

Question 3

Biohazardous waste

Answer 3

Items contaminated with blood, body fluids, secretions, or excretions; bio mean life, and hazardous mean dangerous or harmful.

Question 4

Carrier

Answer 4

A human or animal that is a reservoir for microbes but does not develop the infection.

Question 5

Clean technique

Answer 5

See “medical asepsis”.

Question 6

Communicable disease

Answer 6

A disease caused by pathogens that spread easily; a contagious disease.

Question 7

Contagious disease

Answer 7

Sw “communicable disease “

Question 8

Contamination

Answer 8

The process of becoming unclean.

Question 9

Disinfection

Answer 9

The process of destroying pathogens.

Question 10

Healthcare-associated infection (HAI)

Answer 10

An infection that developed in a person cared for in any setting where health care is given; the infection is related to receiving health care.

Question 11

Infection

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Infection control

Answer 12

Practices and procedures that prevent the spread of infection.

Question 13

Medical asepsis

Answer 13

Practice use to remove or destroy pathogens and to pervent their spread from 1 person or places to another person or place; clean technique

Question 14

Microbes

Answer 14

See “ microorganisms “

Question 15

Microorganisms

Answer 15

A small ( micro) living thing (organism) seen only with a microscope; microbe.

Question 16

Non-pathogens

Answer 16

A microbes that do not usually cause an infection.

Question 17

Pathogens

Answer 17

A microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection.

Question 18

Sterile

Answer 18

The absence of all microbes-pathogens and non- pathogens.

Question 19

Sterilization

Answer 19

The process of destroying all microbes.