Infection Control and Vital Signs
Across
- 2. rate under 60 beats per minute is
- 6. that cause disease
- 12. count taken by listening to heart with a stethoscope
- 15. to hear internal sounds
- 21. pulse as regular or irregular
- 23. process of destroying pathogens
- 24. of infection,factors that lead to the transmission or spread of disease
- 25. is the arterial pulse site: inner aspect of wrist
Down
- 1. pressure in walls of arteries
- 3. immune deficiency syndrome,A disorder in which the immune system is gradually weakened and eventually disabled by the human immuno-defiency virus (HIV)
- 4. or labored breathing
- 5. of entry,a pathway by which the causative agent enters the host
- 7. process of inhibiting the growth and multiplication of microorganisms
- 8. state of fluid balance
- 9. of balance between heat lost and heat produced
- 10. to measure blood pressure
- 11. of exit,a way for the causative agent to escape form the reservoir in which it has been growing
- 13. procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means)
- 14. of transmission,way in which it can be transmitted to another reservoir or host where it can live
- 16. used to record temperature
- 17. is the arterial pulse site: side of the neck
- 18. agent,pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus
- 19. small living organsim that is not visible to the naked eye.
- 20. large or extra supply of something
- 22. Host,a person likely to get an infection or disease