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| Asepsis | being free of disease-producing microbes |
| Biohazardous Waste | items contaminated with blood, body fluids, secreations, or excreation |
| Carrier | a human or animal that is a reservoir for microbes but does not have the signs and symptoms of infection |
| Clean Technique | medical asepsis |
| Communicable Disease | a disease caused by a pathogen that can spread easily; a contagious disease |
| Contagious Disease | communicable disease |
| Contamination | the process of becoming unclean |
| Disinfection | the process of destroying pathogens |
| Germicide | a disinfectant applied to the skin, tissues or non-living objects |
| Immunity | Protection against a certain disease |
| Infection | a disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body |
| Infection Control | practices and procedures that prevent the spread of infection |
| Medical Asepsis | practices used to remove or destroy pathogens and to prevent their spread from one person or place to another person or place; clean technique |
| Microbe | a microorganism |
| Microorganism | a small living plant or animal seen only with a microscope; a microbe |
| Non-Pathogen | a microbe that usually diesn't cause an infection |
| Normal Flora | micobes that live and grow in a certain area |
| Pathogen | a microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection |
| Reservoir | the enviroment in which a microbe lives and grows; host |
| Spore | a bacterium protected by a hard shell |
| Sterile | the abscence of all microbes |
| Sterile Field | a work area free of all pathogens and non-pathogens (incuding spores) |
| Sterile Technique | surgical asepsis |
| Surgical Asepsis | the practices that keep items free of all microbes; sterile technique |
| Vaccination | giving a vaccine to produce immunity against an infectious disease |
| Vaccine | a preparation containing dead or weakened microbes |
