chapter 31 asepsis key terms?

Question: DIRTY: denotes the likely presence of microorganism, some of ehich may be capable of causing infection
DISEASE: an alteration in body function resulting in a reduction of cspscities or shortening of the normal life span
DISENFECTANTS: agents that destroy pathogens or other spores
DROPLET NUCLEI: residue of evaporated droplets that remain in the air for long period of time
DROPLET PRECAUTIONS: methods used to reduce exposure to infectious agents transmitted by particle droplets larger than 5 microns
ENDOGENOUS:developing from with in
EXOGENOUS: developing from outside sources
EXUDATE: material, such as fluid and cells, that has escaped from blood vessels during the inflammatory response and is deposited in tussue or on tissue surface
FUNGI:infecious-causing microorganism that includes yeast and molds
GRANULATION TISSUE: young connective tissue with new capollaries formed in the wound healing process
HUMORAL IMMUNITY: antibody-mediated defense; resides utimaly in the B lymphocytes and is mediated by the aitibodies produced by B cells
HYPEREMIA: increased blood flow to an area
IATROGENIC INFECTIONS: infection that are direct result of of diagnostic or theupeputic procedure
IMMUNE DEFENSE: see specific defense
IMMUNITY: a specific resistant of the body to infection; it may be natural, or resistant may develope after exposure to disease agent
IMMUNOGLOBULINS: see antibodies
INFECTION: the diseease process produced by microorganisms
INFLAMMATION: local or nonspecific defense tissue responde to injury or destruction of cells
ISOLATION: pracrices the prevents the spread of infection and communicable disease
LEUKOCYTES: white blood cells
LEUKOCYTOSIS: increase in the number of white blood cells
LOCAL INFECTION: an infection thst is limited to the specific part of the body where the microorganism remains
MEDICAL ASEPSIS: all practices inend to confine a spcific micoorganism to a specific area, limiting the number, growth, and spread of microrganism
NONSPECIFIC DEFENSES: bodily defense that protects a person against al microorganism, despite previous exposure
NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION: infection associated with health care in a health care setting
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE: skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parental contact whith blood or other potentially infectious materials that may result from the performance of an employees
OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGEN: a microorganism causing disease only in a susceptable host
PARASITES: microorganism that live in or on another from which it obtains nutrishon
PASSIVE IMMUNITY: a resistant of the body to infection in which the host recieves natural or artificial antibodies produced bu antoher source
PATHOGRNICITY: the ability to produce disease; a oathogen is a microorganism that causes disease
REGENERATION: renerwal, regrowth, the replacement of destroeyed tissue cells by cells that are identical or similar in structure and function
RESERVOIRS: a source of microorganism
RESIDENT FLORA: microorganism that normally reside on the skin an mucous membranes and inseide the respiratory and agastiointetinal tract
SEPSIS: the presence od parhopgenic orahanism orh their tocins in the blooody or body tissue
SEPTICEMIA: occors when the bactermis resilurs in sustemic infection
SPECIFICE DEFENSE: immune functions directed against identifiable bacteria , viruses, fungi, and other sources
STERILE FIELD: a specific area that is considered free from microorganism
STERILE TECHNIQUE: practices that keep an area free from microorganism
STERILIZATION: a process that destroys all microorganism including spores and viruses
SURGICAL SEPSIS: see sterile technique
SYSTEMIC INFECTION: occurs when the pathogen spreads and damages differnt parts of the body
UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS (UP): techniques to be used with all cli