Across
- 2. Inability to move or feel part of the body
- 3. Paralysis on one side of the body
- 6. Abnormal electrical activity in the brain; like an electrical storm
- 8. Defense mechanism that allows the body to develop immunity against specific pathogens, toxins, or foreign things
- 10. Defense mechanism that includes physical and chemical barriers that are always ready and prepared to defend the body from infection
- 12. Precautions used when caring for people with diseases that are transmitted directly (by touching) or indirectly (by fomites)
- 15. Lift device used to move people who are helpless or very heavy
- 16. Organisms that depend on a host to survive and spread
- 19. Tiny living things found all around us
- 20. Devices used to prevent residents from causing harm to themselves or others when alternative interventions have not been effective
Down
- 1. Tetanus or lockjaw is an illness caused by this type of microbe
- 2. Microorganisms that cause illness
- 4. Precautions or guidelines we follow to contain a pathogen, based on the pathogen's method of transmission, and limit other's exposure
- 5. Occurs when a microorganism enter a person's body and causes harm
- 7. Microorganism that are harmless in one part of the body and acts as a pathogen in certain circumstances
- 9. Pathogens that are most commonly transmitted through small respiratory droplets
- 11. Communicable diseases that are always present to some extent in our general population
- 13. Diseases-producing microbe that is transmitted through body fluids
- 14. Chemicals used to clean non-living objects that come in contact with body fluids or substances
- 17. "Flora"(microorganisms) that colonize on or within the human body and is essential for healthy living
- 18. Diseases/illnesses caused by viruses or bacteria that people spread to one another through contact with contaminated surfaces, bodily fluids, blood products, insect bites or through the air