HCB 101 Test 2 (Infection Control) - Latest Update 2025 Fully Solved
antibacterial - Answers directed or effective against bacteria
antiseptic - Answers preventing/arresting the growth of microorganisms
Asepsis - Answers absence of significant contamination; the condition of being aseptic
aseptic technique - Answers practices/procedures that assist in reducing the risk for infection
1) Medical Asepsis
2)Surgical Asepsis
Bacteria - Answers any of a domain of prokaryotic round, spiral, or rod shaped single-celled organisms
that may lack cell walls or are gram positive or gram negative, typically live in soil, water, or organic
matter, or the bodies of plants and animals.
Blood borne pathogens - Answers A specific causative agent of disease located in the blood
contagious disease - Answers communicable disease that is easily spread by contact with one who has it,
with a bodily discharge of such a patient, or with an object touched by the patient.
contaminated - Answers to soil, stain, or infect by contact or association
direct contact - Answers Union or junction of body surfaces
Disenfectant - Answers to free from infection especially by destroying harmful microorganisms
Disenfection - Answers to free from infection especially by destroying harmful microorganisms
Fungi - Answers any of the kingdom fungi of saprophytic and parasitic spore producing eukaryotic
typically filamentous organisms formerly classified as plants that lack chlorophyll and include mold, rust,
mildew, smuts, mushrooms, and yeast
Health care-associated infections (HAIs) - Answers Also known as Nosocomial Infection; Acquired or
occurring in a hospital.
infection - Answers infective agent or material contaminated with an infective agent
Isolation - Answers separation for the period of communicability of infected people or animals from
others so as to prevent or limit the direct or indirect transmission of the infectious agent from those
who are infected to those who are susceptible.
Microorganism - Answers Any organism of microscopic or submicroscopic size.
Pathogen - Answers disease causing microorganism
antibacterial - Answers directed or effective against bacteria
antiseptic - Answers preventing/arresting the growth of microorganisms
Asepsis - Answers absence of significant contamination; the condition of being aseptic
aseptic technique - Answers practices/procedures that assist in reducing the risk for infection
1) Medical Asepsis
2)Surgical Asepsis
Bacteria - Answers any of a domain of prokaryotic round, spiral, or rod shaped single-celled organisms
that may lack cell walls or are gram positive or gram negative, typically live in soil, water, or organic
matter, or the bodies of plants and animals.
Blood borne pathogens - Answers A specific causative agent of disease located in the blood
contagious disease - Answers communicable disease that is easily spread by contact with one who has it,
with a bodily discharge of such a patient, or with an object touched by the patient.
contaminated - Answers to soil, stain, or infect by contact or association
direct contact - Answers Union or junction of body surfaces
Disenfectant - Answers to free from infection especially by destroying harmful microorganisms
Disenfection - Answers to free from infection especially by destroying harmful microorganisms
Fungi - Answers any of the kingdom fungi of saprophytic and parasitic spore producing eukaryotic
typically filamentous organisms formerly classified as plants that lack chlorophyll and include mold, rust,
mildew, smuts, mushrooms, and yeast
Health care-associated infections (HAIs) - Answers Also known as Nosocomial Infection; Acquired or
occurring in a hospital.
infection - Answers infective agent or material contaminated with an infective agent
Isolation - Answers separation for the period of communicability of infected people or animals from
others so as to prevent or limit the direct or indirect transmission of the infectious agent from those
who are infected to those who are susceptible.
Microorganism - Answers Any organism of microscopic or submicroscopic size.
Pathogen - Answers disease causing microorganism
