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Contact isolation
Techniques used in addition to standard precautions that decrease the likelihood of infection by microorganisms transmitted through direct or indirect contact with the patient or patient care items (e.g., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile). Patients placed on contact isolation should preferably have a private room, but patients may be placed with others infected with…
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Body substance isolation precautions
The standard precautions that are taken by all health care personnel, such as wearing gloves, goggles, and masks, to avoid contact with potentially infectious body substances such as urine, feces, saliva, vomit, and blood.
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Airborne isolation
Techniques used in addition to standard precautions to decrease transmission of microorganisms less than 5 p in size or those attached to dust particles. Patients are placed in a private room, preferably one with negative air pressure and between 6 and 12 changes of air each hour. Hospital workers should wear respirator masks when in…
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Isohemolysis
The destruction of red blood cells produced by an isolysin; the action of an isohemolysin.
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Isohemagglutinin
The naturally occurring anti-A and anti-B antibodies against the antigens present on red blood cells. If incompatible blood is transfused, these antibodies destroy the recipient’s red blood cells through agglutination and hemolysis. Patients with type A blood cannot receive blood from a donor with type B or AB blood, because they have anti-B antibodies. Patients…
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Isogenous group
A cluster of cells that have come from one cell, such as the clusters of chondrocytes in cartilage.
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Isogenesis
A similarity in morphological development.
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Isogeneric
Of the same kind; concerning or obtained from members of the same genus.
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Isoelectric focusing
A method for separating proteins according to their surface charge by placing them in a gel with a pH gradient and subjecting them to an electrical current. The proteins stop migrating through the gel when they encounter ampholytes with similar charges.
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Isoechoic
Producing ultrasound echoes equal to those of neighboring or of normal tissues.
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