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| a substance that kills microorganisms and cures infections |
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| a substance that inhibits the growth and reproduction of disease-causing microorganisms |
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| the absence of pathogenic micro-organisms |
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| also called the clean technique - includes procedures used to reduce and prevent the spread of microorganisms - hand hygiene, using clean gloves to prevent direct contact with blood or body fluids, and cleaning the environment routinely |
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| sterile technique - includes procedures used to eliminate all microorganisms, including pathogens and spores from an object or an area |
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| microorganisms that make be pathogenic |
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| destructive or destroying bacteria |
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| fluid found in one of the fluid compartments of the body. The principle compartments are intracellular and extracellular. |
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| a person who harbors a specific pathogenic organism and is potentially capable of spreading the organism to others |
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| hygienic, sanitary, uncontaminated |
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| a material contaminated with an infective agent |
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| disease caused by the entrance into the body of organisms (bacteria, protozoas, fungi, or viruses) which grow and multiply here |
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| a local response to cellular injurty that is marked by capillary dilatation, leukocytic infiltration, redness, heat, pain, swelling, and often loss of function and that serves as a mechanism initiating the elimination of noxious agents and of damaged tissue |
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| a segregation of a group of organisms from related forms in such a manner as to prevent crossing infections |
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| a living organism that can be seen only with a microscope. They help us digest food and make possible the normal development of our immune system. Microbes include viruses, bacteria, and parasites, which can cause disease when our immune system can't fight them off |
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| the acquisition of a new disease, or condition within a health care setting |
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| an agent that is capable of destroying pathogenic microorganisms or inhibiting their growth. |
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| the diverse morphologic form of yeasts and molds |
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| the organism in which a parasite lives, thus deriving its body substance or energy |
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| the status or quality of being immune |
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| immunity obtained either from the development of antibodies in response to exposure to an antigen, as from vaccination or an attack of an infectious disease, or from the transmission of antibodies, as from mother to fetus through the placenta or the injection of antiserum. |
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| immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic make up |
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| any disease-producing microorganism or material |
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| containing or consisting of pus |
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| resident bacteria (body flora) |
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| bacteria that are found living in or on an organism that does not cause harm to that organism, and which often benefits that organism |
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| relation to blood; bloody |
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| relation to, containing, or producing serum or a substance having a watery consistency |
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| a resistant form of certain species of bacteria |
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| area where it is sterilized, usually where they do surgery |
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| the act or procedure of sterilizing |
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| any of various simple submicroscopic parasites of plants, animals, and bacteria that often cause disease and that consist essentially of a core of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, virsuses are typically no considered living organisms |
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| individual degree of resistance to a pathogen |
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| without fever; having a normal body temperature |
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| slowness of heartbeat, usually a rare less than 60 beats per minute. |
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| a clinical sign of hypoxia and manifests as breathlessness or uncomfortable breathing |
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| increased white blood cell production during fever |
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| arterial disease in which chronic high blood pressure is the primary symptom |
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| abnormally low blood pressure |
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| listening to the body sounds using a stethoscope |
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| the sounds heard over an artery when blood pressure is determined by auscultatory method |
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| a form of low blood pressure precipitated by moving from a lying or sitting position to a standing up straight position |
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| blood flow pressure when the heart is beating or maximum pressure exerted when the heart ejects blood into the veins |
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| the difference between the systolic and diastolic blood pressure (eg. 120/80, pulse pressure would be 40) |
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| an alteration in breathing pattern, where respirationis cease for several seconds; persistent cessation results in respiratory arrest |
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| normal rhythmically occuring relaxation and dilation of the heart chambers, especially the ventricles, when it is filled with blood |
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| an abnormally elevated heart rate; above 100bpm in adults |
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| abnormal rapidity of respiration can result from anxiety or response to pain or fever, respiratory failure, shortness of breath or a respiratory infection |
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