Med Micro Chap. 4 Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. A federal agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that serves to protect public health through the control and prevention.
  2. 3. a localized reaction that produces redness, warmth, swelling, and pain as a result of infection, irritation, or injury
  3. 5. preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms
  4. 8. using specialized cleansing techniques that destroy or prevent growth of organisms capable of infection.
  5. 10. microorganisms that can grow and reproduce in rich, moist soil where many nutrients are available
  6. 11. to deprive a substance of its natural qualities
  7. 13. a technique for destroying microorganisms using heat, water, chemicals, or gases
  8. 15. The presence of extraneous, especially infectious, material that renders a substance or preparation impure or harmful.
  9. 16. the process whereby pathogenic organisms are reduced to safe levels on inanimate objects, thereby reducing the likelihood of cross-infection
  10. 17. guidelines designed by CDC to reduce the risk of transmission of microorganisms from recognized and unrecognized sources of infection in the hospital
  11. 18. the area in which a microorganism enters the body such as cuts, lesions, injection sites, or natural body orifices.
  12. 21. partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food
  13. 22. infection resulting from treatment in a hospital or a health care service unit; older term that is replaced with HAIs
Down
  1. 2. process by which an agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit, and is conveyed by some mode of transmission, then enters through an appropriate portal of entry to infect a susceptible host
  2. 4. A type of radiation therapy that uses short wavelengths of light that ionize water molecules for sterilization.
  3. 6. policies and procedures used to minimize the risk of spreading infections, especially in hospitals and human or animal health care facilities
  4. 7. a disease caused by microorganisms, especially those that release toxins or invade body tissues
  5. 9. Inhibiting the growth of bacteria
  6. 12. the process of making a person, object, or environment free of microorganisms, radioactivity, or other contaminants
  7. 14. infections that patients or residents get while receiving treatment in a hospital or other health care facility, or that health care workers get while performing their duties within a health care setting
  8. 19. the process of physically removing all foreign material from an object
  9. 20. cell produced by fungi for reproduction; a resistant cell produced by bacteria to withstand extreme heat or cold or dehydration