Across
- 2. a medicine that destroys microorganisms
- 6. practices and procedures to prevent contamination from pathogens
- 7. a gelatinous substance obtained from various kinds of red seaweed and used in biological culture media as a thickener in foods
- 8. pressure of circulating blood against wall of blood vessels
- 10. a scientist who studies microscopic life forms
- 12. protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments designed to protect the wearer from injury or infection.
- 13. any organism that can produce a disease
- 17. rate at which breathing occurs
Down
- 1. any group of spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter
- 3. a type of biological cell that can take many shapes and sizes
- 4. evidence of disease or injury
- 5. Phase of heartbeat when the heart muscle relaxes and allows chambers to fill with blood
- 7. any power, principle, or substance capable of producing an effect, whether physical, chemical or biological
- 9. signs clinical measurements that indicate the state of a patients essential body functions
- 10. microscopic organism which can exist is a group or alone
- 11. the vital sign that measures heat
- 14. a rhythmical throbbing of arteries as blood is propelled through them
- 15. relating to the phase of the heartbeat when heart muscle contracts and pumps blood from the chambers into the arteries
- 16. infectious agent the replicates inside living things