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| Substance commonly used on living tissue to inhibit the growth and reproduction of microbes to prevent infection |
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| Absence of pathogenic microorganisms |
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| Methods practiced by the surgical team to prevent microbial contamination of the surgical environment |
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| Substance that destroys or kills bacteria |
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| Substance that inhibits the growth and reproduction of bacteria |
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| The number of microbes or amount of organic debris on an object at any given time. |
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| The presence of pathogenic materials |
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| The contamination of a person or object by another. |
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| To reduce to an irreducible minimum the presence of pathogenic material |
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| Chemical agent that kills most microbes, but usually not spores; usually used on inanimate objects because these compounds are too strong to be used on living tissues. |
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| Sterility determined by how a package is handled rather than time elapsed; a package is considered sterile until opened or the integrity of packaging material is damaged |
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| Inanimate object that harbors microorganisms |
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| Agent that destroys fungus |
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| Invasion of the human body or tissue by pathogenic microorganisms that reproduce or multiply, causing disease. |
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| Infection acquired within a health care facility |
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| Any microbe capabe of causing disease |
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| Microbes that normally reside below the skin surface or within the body. |
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| Infection, usually accompanied by fever, that results from the presence of pathogenic microorganisms |
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| A resistant form of certain types of bacteria that are able to survive in adverse conditions. |
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Substance that kills/destroys bacteria in the spore stage |
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| Having been rendered free of all living microorganisms, including spores. |
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| Specified area, usually the area immediately around the patient, that is considered free of microorganisms. |
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| Techniques of creating a sterile field and performing within the sterile field to keep microbes at an irreducible minimum |
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| The destruction of all microorganisms, including spores, on inaminate surfaces through the use of steam or chemical sterilization, electron bombardment, or irradiation. |
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| Strike-through contamination |
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| Contamination of a sterile field that occurs through the passage of fluid through, or a puncture in, a microbial barrier. |
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Mechanically cleaned and chemically disinfected but not sterile |
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| To render items safe to handle by high-level disinfection |
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| To render items safe to handle by sterilization |
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| Microbes that reside on the skin surface and are easily removed. |
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| Living carrier that transmits disease |
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Agent that destroys viruses |
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