- sterility assurance level (SAL) by Karina Chavez
... probability of survival for organisms on a sterilized device. This level means that there is less than or equal to one chance in a million that an item remains contaminated or nonsterile. See also sterilization.
- specific pathogen free by Blake Rogers
... but are then placed into a nonsterile environment in which they become infected with a range of microorganisms, many colonizing as so-called normal flora. Certain defined specific pathogenic microorganisms are not present in the environment so that SPF animals can be stated to be free of infection or previous infection with the specified microorganism. See also ...
- spatial relationships by Josephine Ramsey
... particular emphasis on what is sterile, clean, or contaminated. The operating room nurse must maintain an awareness of the arrangement of people and the proximity of sterile to nonsterile areas.
- waste products by Stephanie Diaz
... .instruments that have become nonsterile after coming into contact with blood, saliva, urine, or any other bodily fluids. n. Pl. 2. the fluids or substances that contain the byproducts of metabolic activity. See also waste products.waste products, infectious, n. Contaminated waste that may potentially cause infectious disease.
- scrub by Carson Ross
... are not allowed to touch any nonsterile surfaces.scrub tick see ixodes holocyclus. scrub typhus a disease of humans transmitted by Trombicula akamushi. And resident in rodents which serve as reservoirs. Called also Japanese river fever, tsutsugamushi disease.