Definitions on Final

Question 1

Microorganisms are at an irreducible level

Answer 1

sterile

Question 2

process by which all pathogenic and non-pethogen microbes, including spores, are killed

Answer 2

sterilization

Question 3

passage of fluid through materials, rendering them non-sterile

Answer 3

wicking

Question 4

absence of disease causing microbes

Answer 4

asepsis

Question 5

compounds used to clean and reduce bacterial populations of inanimate objects, surfaces, or equipment

Answer 5

disinfectants

Question 6

inorganic chemical compounds used to kill or reduce the microbial population of viable (living) tissue

Answer 6

antiseptics

Question 7

transfer of microbes to a previously sterile area

Answer 7

contamination

Question 8

hospital-acquired infection associated with receipt of medical care

Answer 8

nosocomial infection

Question 9

packing, drapes, or protective garb intended to maintain an effective barrier against microbial transmission and contamination

Answer 9

microbial barrier

Question 10

–ectomy

Answer 10

excision or surgical removal or tissue

Question 11

–orrhaphy

Answer 11

surgical repair by use of suture

Question 12

–oscopy

Answer 12

direct visual examination of s a structure

Question 13

–ostomy

Answer 13

creation of a new (permanent) opening by suturing luminal epithelium to the skin

Question 14

–otomy

Answer 14

cutting or dissection (surgically incising into the tissue and closing the incision)

Question 15

–pexy

Answer 15

surgical fixation of a structure to another structure by use of suture

Question 16

–plasty

Answer 16

repairing defects in a structure

Question 17

removal, especially by cutting, separation, or detatchment

Answer 17

ablation

Question 18

delivery of a fetus by incision through the abdominal and uterine walls

Answer 18

cesarean section

Question 19

removal of foreign material and devitalized or contaminated tissues from w wound

Answer 19

debridement

Question 20

splitting open, as in a surgical wound

Answer 20

dehiscence

Question 21

surgical sponge left within a patient’s body

Answer 21

gossypiboma

Question 22

dilatation of a space or cavity with accumulated mucous secretions

Answer 22

mucocele

Question 23

excision of a claw or nail at P2-P3

Answer 23

onychectomy

Question 24

excision of part of a structure

Answer 24

resection

Question 25

state of being twisted (on a pedicle)

Answer 25

torsion

Question 26

rotation/twisting of a portion of GI tract on it’s mesenteric axis

Answer 26

volvulus

Question 27

surgical removal of the cecum

Answer 27

typhlectomy

Question 28

distance between the point of the needle and the swaged portion

Answer 28

chord length

Question 29

planned disruption of tissue planes; wound is created using sharp instruments

Answer 29

incision

Question 30

skin or tissue penetration by a blunt or sharp projectile

Answer 30

puncture

Question 31

dampened waveform that surges and gaps

Answer 31

coagulating current

Question 32

undampened waveform with constant output of high frequency current

Answer 32

cutting current

Question 33

undampened waveforms are added to the dampened waveform and result in the ability to incise and coagulate at the same time

Answer 33

blended current