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Nosonomial Infection |
a hospital required infection |
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Prevention |
effectual hindrance |
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Transmission |
to send from one to another |
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Infection |
contamination within a person or wound |
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Acquired |
to come into possession or ownership of |
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Diagnosis |
process of determining by examinating the nature and circumstances of a disease condition |
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Direct |
to get something first hand |
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indirect |
not in path or course |
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contact |
the act or state of touching or being near |
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MRSA |
staph infection; bacterium highly resistant to antibiotics |
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isolate |
to place apart from |
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efficiency |
capacity of producing a desired result or effect |
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effective |
adequate to accomplish a purpose; produce expected result |
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contaminate |
to make impure |
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disinfect |
to cleanse of infection |
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communicable disease |
transmitted through direct contact with an infected individual |
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infection control |
set of methods used to control and prevent the spread of disease |
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germs |
a microorganism ; especially when disease producing; microbe |
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bacteria |
one-celled organisms infectious of diseases, or nitrogen fixation |
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aspetic |
free from living germs or disease |
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communicable |
capable of being transmitted or carried |
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contamination |
making impure or unsuitable by contact with something bad |
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medical asepsis |
being free from microorganisms |
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microorganisms |
too small to be seen by the unaided eye |
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pathogens |
germs, bacteria, virus |
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standard precautions |
set of infection control practices to prevent diseases |
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sterilization |
destroying germs by high temperatures; extreme |
