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| An agent or substance capable of effecting antisepsis |
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| infectious agents due to medical interference |
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| Capable of destroying pathogens or inhibiting thier growth |
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| Disorder transmissible by infection or contagion directly or indirectly or through an agent or vector |
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| A disease resulting from the presence and activity of a microbial agent. |
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| Combination of universal precautions and body-substance precautions for all patients regardless of diagnosis |
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| precautions to prevent parenteral, mucous membrane, and nonintact skin exposures of health care workers to bloodborne pathogens. |
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| Transmission based precautions |
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| in addition to standard precautions, precautions based on the potential means of disease transmission: airborne, droplet, or contact. |
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| Measures taken to prevent transmission of infectious agents by airborne droplet spray. Airborne precautions include use of masks and air filtration systems. |
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| Masks, gowns, and gloves as well as standard precautions (q.v.) must be used by health care providers when in the infected patient's room. |
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| Precautions to prevent transmission of agents TO the patient due to patient's inability to fight off infection from decreased WBC |
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| Abbreviation for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. |
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| Abbreviation for vancomycin-resistant enterococcus. |
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| Clostridium difficile, often called C. difficile or "C. diff," is a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening inflammation of the colon |
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| A varicose condition of the external or internal rectal veins causing painful swellings at the anus |
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| Farts: Gas or air in the gastrointestinal tract that may be expelled through the anus. |
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| Any forced expiratory effort (“strain”) against a closed airway, whether at the nose and mouth or at the glottis; because high intrathoracic pressure impedes venous return to the right atrium |
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| An actual increase in the total number of leukocytes in the blood |
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| Extensive necrosis from any cause, e.g., gas gangrene. |
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| A purplish patch caused by extravasation of blood into the skin, differing from petechiae only in size (larger than 3 mm diameter) |
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| Containing, consisting of, or forming pus. |
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| Vascular connective tissue forming granular projections on the surface of a healing wound, ulcer, or inflamed surface. |
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| Any fluid that has exuded out of a tissue or its capillaries because of injury or inflammation. |
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| A bursting open, splitting, or gaping along natural or sutured lines. |
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| serum or a substance having a watery consistency. |
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| affected with, condition, abnormal process |
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| disembowelment, also the removal of the contents of the eyeball, leaving the sclera and sometimes the cornea |
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| Adhesive straps arranged so that a bandage can be changed without removing the straps |
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| Removal of foreign materials, necrotic matter, and devitalized tissue from a wound or burn. |
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| An abnormal passage from one epithelialized surface to another, either congenital, caused by disease or injury, or created surgically |
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| Any mechanical injury (usually caused by a blow) resulting in hemorrhage beneath unbroken skin |
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| A tearing away or forcible separation |
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