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| A SCRAPING AWAY OF A PORTION OF SKIN OR MUCOUS MEMBRANE BY FRICTION AS A RESULT OF INJURY, THERAPY OR WEARING DOWN |
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| A CAVITY CONTAINING PUS AND SURROUNDED BY INFLAMED TISSUE |
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| ABSENCE OF GERMS OR MICROORGANISMS |
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| BANDAGE MADE OF A LARGE PIECE OF MATERIAL TO FIT A SPECIFIC BODY PART |
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| A PERSON OR ANIMAL THAT SHOWS NO SYMPTOMS OF ILLNESS BUT WHO HAS PATHOGENS ON OR IN THEIR BODY THAT CAN BE TRANSFERRED TO OTHERS |
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| A DIFFUSE, ACUTE INFECTION OF THE SKIN AND SUBCUTAANEOUS TISSUE |
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| AGENCY OF THE US GOVERMENT THAT PROVIDES FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR THE INVESTIGATION, IDENTIFICATION PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE |
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| an illness due to a specific infectious agent that can be transmitted from an infected person or animal or a reservior to a susceptible host |
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| COMMUNICABLE, AS A DISEASE |
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| THE PROPAGATION OF MICROORGANISMS OR OF LIVING TISSUE CELLS IN SPECIAL MEDIA THAT IS CONDUCTIVE TO THEIR GROWTH |
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| DEVICES TO INSURE FREE FLOW OF FLUIDS FROMA WOUND OR CAVITY |
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| DISCOLORATION OF SKIN OR A BRUISE CAUSED BY LEAKAGE OF BLOOD INTO SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES AS A RESULT OF TRAUMA TO UNDERLYING VESSELS |
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| FLUID, CELLS OR OTHER SUBSTANCES THAT HAVE BEEN SLOWLY DISCHARFGED FROM CELLS OR BLOOD VESSELS THROUGH SMALL PORES OR BREAKS IN CELL MEMBRANES |
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| INANIMATE SUBSTANCES OR OBJECTS SUCH AS CLOTHING AND PAPER THAT A ABSORB AND TRANSMIT INFECTIOUS MATERIAL |
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| HEALING BY PRIMARY INTENTION |
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| DESCRIBES A WOUND THAT HEALS WITH THE EDGES WILL APPROXIMATED AND A MINIMUM OF GRANULATION TISSUE. SURGICAL INCISION AND PAPER CUTS HEAL IN THIS WAY UNLESS COMPLICATED E.G, BY INFECTION |
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| HEALING BY SECONDARY INTENTION |
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| WOUND CLOSURE IN WHICH THE EDGES ARE SEPARATED, GRANULATION TISSUE DEVELOPS TO FILL THE GAP, AND FINALLY,EPITHELIUM GROWS IN OVER THE GRANULATION, PRODUCING A LARGER SCAN THAN RESULTS WITH HEALING BY PRIMARY INTENTION |
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| HEALING BY TERTIARY INTENTION |
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| A WOUND THAT IS SURGICALLY CLOSED SEVERAL DAYS AFTER INJURY. ALSO KNOWN AS DELAYED PRIMARY CLOSURE, THIS TECHNIQUE MAY BE USED BY SURGEONS FOR WOUNDS THAT ARE TOO CONTAMINATED TO BE CLOSED IMMEDIATELY |
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| COLLECTION OFBLOOD TRAPPED IN THE TISSUES OF THE SKIN OR AN ORGAN |
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| INVASION AND MULTIPLACTION OF AN INFECTIOUS AGENT IN BODY TISSUES |
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| IMMEDIATE LOCAL PROECTIVE RESPONCE OF BODY TISSUES TO IRRAITION OR INJURY |
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| REFERRING TO PROCEDURES THAT INVOLVE PUNCTURE, INCISION, OR INSERTION OF A FOREIGN OBJECT SUCH AS A NEEDLE OR CATHETER, IN TO THE BODY |
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| (CLEAN TECHNIQUE) INCLUDES A PROCEDURES USED TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF MICROORGANISMS AND PREVENT THEIR SPREAD |
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| ANY MICROSCOPIC ENTITY CAPABLE OF CARRYING ON LIVING PROCESSES SUCH AS BACTERIS VIRUSES AND FUNGI |
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| INFECTION ACQUIRED DURING HOSPITALIZATION OR STAY IN A HEALTH CARE FACILITY |
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| ANY MICROORGANISM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DISEASE |
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| ENTRY OR AVENUE BY WHICH ORGANISMS ENTER THE BODY |
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| A ROUTE BY WHICH ORGANISMS LEAVE THE BODY SO THEY CAN FIND ENTRY INTO ANOTHER HOST AND CAUSE DISEASE |
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| PRODUCING OR CANTANING PUS |
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| AN OPEN SORE OR LESION OF THE SKIN OR MUCOUS MEMBRANE ACCOMPANIED BY SLOUGHING OF INFLAMED NECROTIC TISSUE |
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