Vocab words

Question 1

Highly specific proteins that attach themselves to foreign substances in an initial step in destroying such substances as part of the bodies defense

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Antibodies

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A foreign substance that stimulates white blood cells to create antibodies when it enters the body

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Antigen

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The condition in which pathogens are absent or controlled

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Asepsis

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A primitive, thick walled, reproductive body capable of developing into a new individual

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Bacterial spore

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Biological agents that can cause speed disease to living things

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Biohazardous material

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Leak proof puncture resistant containers that are colored, can you read or labeled with a special Biohazardous symbol

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Biohazardous waste container

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A reservoir host who is inward of the presence of a pathogen and so spreads the disease while exhibiting no symptoms of infection

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Carrier

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The destruction of infectious agent on an object or surface by direct application of chemical or physical
Means

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Disinfection

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An infection in which an abnormality or malfunction in routine body process cause normally beneficial or harmless microganisms to become pathogenic

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Endogenous infection

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An inanimate object such as clothing body fluids water or food that may be contaminated with infectious organisms and thus serve to transmit disease

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Fomite

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The condition of being resistant, or not suspectible to pathogens, and the disease they cause

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Immunity

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Monocytes white in the bloodstream are phagocytes found in the lymph nodes liver spieen lungs bone marrow and connective tissue

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Macrophages

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A simple form of life commonly made up of a single cell and so small that it can be seen only with a microscope

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Microorganisms

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Beneficial bacteria found in the body that creates a barrier against pathogens by producing substances that may harm invaders in using up the resources pathogens need to live

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Normal flora

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Infection by micro organisms that can cause disease only with a host resistance is low

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Opportunistic infection

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A microorganism capable of causing disease

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Pathogen

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A speacialized white blood cell that engulfs and digests pathogens

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Phagocytes

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Animal, insect, or human, whose body is suspectible to growth of a pathogen

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Reservoir host

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Reduction of the number of microorganisms of an object, or a surface to a fairly safe levels

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Sanitization

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A combination of universal precautions and body substances, isolation guidelines used in hospitals

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Standard precautions

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The destruction of all microorganisms including bacterial spores by specific means

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Sterilization

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An infection in which the host experiences only some of the symptoms of the infection, or milder symptoms in full case

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Sub clinical case

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An individual who had a little or no immunity to infection by particular organism

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Susceptible host

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Specific precautions required by the department of health and human services centers for disease, control and prevention to prevent health care workers from exposing themselves and others infection by blood-borne pathogens

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Universal precautions

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A living organisms, such as insect that carries micro organisms from an infected person to another

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Vector

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A microorganism disease producing power

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Virulence