is aseptic another word for sterile?
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Others have already noted the definitions and differences: aseptic = free from pathogens (i.e. anything that can cause 'sepsis'), sterile = free of anything living, as well as of things like bacterial spores that could in future hatch into bacteria.\n\nI'd just add that in medicine and surgery, 'aseptic technique' and 'sterile technique' are not the same thing. For sterile technique, EVERYTHING is sterile to start with: the inside and outside of syringes, gloves, gowns, instruments. In aseptic technique, parts of it can be sterile but others aren't - you may be wearing nonsterile gloves, handling a syringe that is not sterile on the outside, but which contains sterile medication you will be injecting into an IV on a person's hand, for instance.
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To aspirate means that you can have your food go down the wrong pipe and land up in your lungs.  A strict aspiration precaution means that the doctors feel this patient is at risk for some medical reason, of this happening and feeding would be limited and watched.
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Asymmetrical and unsymmetrical are both fine words to describe something that has no symmetry.  Amorphous is the proper word to describe something that has no definite shape (like an amoeba).
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no reason it should be used, actually.  the wound itself is not sterile.  it's exposed to air, clothes, water, and everything else.  the dressing changes themselves also do not have to be sterile.  it is the dressing changes, not the sterility (or antibiotics, or anything else) that has the greatest effect on the healing of a wound
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There's not an antonym for "apothecary". If you wanted the opposite of drugstore, which is usually used for healing people, you could go towards garbage dump, dirty commode, contaminated needles.... Anything that can make a person sick rather than well.
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Obviously- Wrong! Or maybe pnemunoultramicroscopicvolcanoiosisinfratube!\n   Or u can always try foriegn lingo.
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An "analeptic" is a stimulant (usually refers to an agent, drug, chemical, etc.). When the term is used not as a noun, but a adjective, it means: stimulating or invigorating. So if your symptoms are "analeptic" it sounds like a good thing. I'd question the source though.
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b) cold : hot\n\nEndocytosis the soluble molecules are taken up from outside the cell through the formation of vesicles.  The membrane folds around material outside the cell, resulting in the formation of a saclike vesicle into which the material is incorporated. This vesicle is then pinched off from the cell surface so that it lies within the cell.\nExocytosis is exactly the OPPOSITE in which The cellular secretion of macromolecules by the fusion of vesicles with the plasma membrane.\nThey are antonyms.\n\nIn a)phagocytosis is something that a white blood cell does to a bacteria (i.e. engulf it to destroy it...so that's not opposite.\nIn b) hot and cold are OPPOSITE meanings and are antonyms.\nIn c) a white blood cell will phagocytos a bacteria but once again, that they aren't opposite in meaning.\nIn d) phagocytosis and engulfing are the same definition, i.e. synonyms and thus are not the answer.
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I guess that would be the difference between "sour" and "rancid"..lol \n\nInteresting question though!
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Good grief...\n\nscrud:\nDated colloquialism for a venereal-disease , especially one causings painful urination . See STD for synonyms.
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Yes, there is limited (but rapidly growing) medical literature on this.  Go to Pubmed and try a search with  terms such as: microflora, dysbiosis, arthritis, inflammation, and/or lipopolysacharrides (LPS).\n\nGood luck!
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automobile, auto\ngasoline , gas\nsilverware silver\npotatoes, spuds\ninfluenza flu
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Yes, proper aseptic technique should always be used when changing a wound dressing.Wound infection is a possibility if proper technique is not followed. You don't have to be a nurse to learn to or change a dressing.
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meningitis\nmononucleosis\ndoctor asap
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Ummm...a germ or virus. Airborne, surface borne (two day life span)