COLORADO ESTHETICIAN COMPREHENSIVE
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Active stage - ✔✔Bacteria grow and reproduce. Bacteria multiply best in warm, dark,
damp, or dirty places.
✔✔Inactive or spore forming stage - ✔✔During this stage bacteria coat themselves with
wax like outer shells. This helps them withstand famine, dryness, and unsuitable
temperatures.
✔✔pus - ✔✔is a fluid created by infection. It contains white blood cells, and dead cells
✔✔Contagious Disease (Communicable Disease) - ✔✔an illness that is easily spread to
others (common cold, ringworm, conjuncttivius, , etc.)
✔✔Virus - ✔✔A parasitic submicroscopic particle that infects and resides in cells of
biological organisms.
✔✔bloodborne pathogens - ✔✔diseas-causing microorganisms that are carried in the
body by blood of body fluids such as heptitis and HIV
✔✔Cutting living skin is allowed only by - ✔✔qualified medical professionals, out of
esthetician's scope
✔✔Hepatitis - ✔✔is a bloodborn virus that causes disease and can damage the liver.
✔✔3 types of Hepatits - ✔✔Hepatits A, B, and C
✔✔Fungi - ✔✔microscopic plant parasites that include molds, mildews, and yeasts.
*ringworm
✔✔Mildew - ✔✔another fungus, affects plants or gorws on inanimate objects but does
not cause human infections
, ✔✔Dermatophytes - ✔✔A type of fungi that causes skin, hair, and nail infections. The
most basic infection
✔✔Tinea pedis (athlete's foot) - ✔✔a ringworm fungus of the food, tinea corpories,
ringworm, onychomycosis- nail infection
✔✔Follicultis barbae, sycosis barbae, barbers itch - ✔✔an inflammation of the hair
follicles caused by bacteria infection from ingrown due to shaving or epilation methods.
✔✔tinea versicolor - ✔✔sun spots, white or varicolored patches on the skin and are
often found on the arms and legs
✔✔parasites - ✔✔microscopic organisms that take nourishment from hosts
✔✔Scabies - ✔✔contagious skin disease transmitted by the itch mite
✔✔immunity - ✔✔is the ability of the body to destroy and resist infection
✔✔natural immunity - ✔✔is partly inherited and partly developed through healthy living
✔✔acquired immunity - ✔✔is immunity that the body develops after overcoming a
disease, through inoculation (such as flu vaccinations), or through exposure to natural
allergens such as pollen, cat dander, and ragweed
✔✔decontamination - ✔✔The removal of blood or other potentially infectious materials
on an item's surface and the removal of visible debris or residue such as dust, hair, and
skin.
✔✔Decontamination method 1 - ✔✔Cleaning and then disinfecting with an appropriate
EPA-registered disinfectant
✔✔Decontamination Method 2 - ✔✔Cleaning and then sterilizing
✔✔allergy - ✔✔Reaction due to extreme sensitivity to certain foods, chemicals, or other
normally harmless substances.
✔✔Autocalve - ✔✔high-pressure steam equipment. Most effective sterilizer
✔✔Universal Precautions - ✔✔require the employer and employee to assume that their
pathogens present in blood that can spread disease in humans
✔✔asymptomatic - ✔✔without symptoms
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Active stage - ✔✔Bacteria grow and reproduce. Bacteria multiply best in warm, dark,
damp, or dirty places.
✔✔Inactive or spore forming stage - ✔✔During this stage bacteria coat themselves with
wax like outer shells. This helps them withstand famine, dryness, and unsuitable
temperatures.
✔✔pus - ✔✔is a fluid created by infection. It contains white blood cells, and dead cells
✔✔Contagious Disease (Communicable Disease) - ✔✔an illness that is easily spread to
others (common cold, ringworm, conjuncttivius, , etc.)
✔✔Virus - ✔✔A parasitic submicroscopic particle that infects and resides in cells of
biological organisms.
✔✔bloodborne pathogens - ✔✔diseas-causing microorganisms that are carried in the
body by blood of body fluids such as heptitis and HIV
✔✔Cutting living skin is allowed only by - ✔✔qualified medical professionals, out of
esthetician's scope
✔✔Hepatitis - ✔✔is a bloodborn virus that causes disease and can damage the liver.
✔✔3 types of Hepatits - ✔✔Hepatits A, B, and C
✔✔Fungi - ✔✔microscopic plant parasites that include molds, mildews, and yeasts.
*ringworm
✔✔Mildew - ✔✔another fungus, affects plants or gorws on inanimate objects but does
not cause human infections
, ✔✔Dermatophytes - ✔✔A type of fungi that causes skin, hair, and nail infections. The
most basic infection
✔✔Tinea pedis (athlete's foot) - ✔✔a ringworm fungus of the food, tinea corpories,
ringworm, onychomycosis- nail infection
✔✔Follicultis barbae, sycosis barbae, barbers itch - ✔✔an inflammation of the hair
follicles caused by bacteria infection from ingrown due to shaving or epilation methods.
✔✔tinea versicolor - ✔✔sun spots, white or varicolored patches on the skin and are
often found on the arms and legs
✔✔parasites - ✔✔microscopic organisms that take nourishment from hosts
✔✔Scabies - ✔✔contagious skin disease transmitted by the itch mite
✔✔immunity - ✔✔is the ability of the body to destroy and resist infection
✔✔natural immunity - ✔✔is partly inherited and partly developed through healthy living
✔✔acquired immunity - ✔✔is immunity that the body develops after overcoming a
disease, through inoculation (such as flu vaccinations), or through exposure to natural
allergens such as pollen, cat dander, and ragweed
✔✔decontamination - ✔✔The removal of blood or other potentially infectious materials
on an item's surface and the removal of visible debris or residue such as dust, hair, and
skin.
✔✔Decontamination method 1 - ✔✔Cleaning and then disinfecting with an appropriate
EPA-registered disinfectant
✔✔Decontamination Method 2 - ✔✔Cleaning and then sterilizing
✔✔allergy - ✔✔Reaction due to extreme sensitivity to certain foods, chemicals, or other
normally harmless substances.
✔✔Autocalve - ✔✔high-pressure steam equipment. Most effective sterilizer
✔✔Universal Precautions - ✔✔require the employer and employee to assume that their
pathogens present in blood that can spread disease in humans
✔✔asymptomatic - ✔✔without symptoms
