Sterilization
Pharmacology
Instruments (Major Set)
Instruments (Minor Set)
Extra
100

This term describes a substance that kills bacteria.

What is a bacteriocidal

100

What is the copyrighted name by which a pharmaceutical company identifies its product?

What is a brand or trade name? 

100

This instrument is commonly used to cut drapes and cut through things that are not skin. 

What are bandage scissors? 
100

This instrument is a forcep and has a single rat-tooth. 

Rat-tooth pickups or forceps.
100

This microbial population normally resides in body tissues or systems are also known as what type of microflora? 

What is Indigenous microflora? 

200

What is the term for a substance that inhibits the growth and reproduction of bacteria? 

What is a Bacteriostatic?
200
Drugs can be categorized by their therapeutic action, physiological action, chemical type, and the ? 

What is the body system affected?

200

This instrument is used a lot during tonsillectomies and is the first thing to grab when there is lots of bleeding. 

What is the Schnidt hemostat or clamp?

200

This instrument can either be blunt-tipped or sharp-tipped. These may be called a nickname, which is also a popular cereal. 

What are Wheaties or Weitlaner Retractors? 

200

An agent that kills bacteria in the spore stage is known as a?

What is a Sporicide? 

300

What is the term for the total number of microbes or the amount of organic debris on an object at any given time? 

What is Bioburden?

300

What must be done to powder drugs before they can be injected or applied topically? 

What is they must be reconstituted? 

300

This instrument is categorized into the forceps category and has a single tooth at the end. This instrument looks similar to an alligator. 

What is the Kocher Forceps?

300

This instrument is categorized in the scissor category. Its nickname is taken from a famous New York baseball team. 

What are the Metz or Metzenbaum Scissors? 

300
This type of microbe is capable of causing disease or infection.

What is a pathogen?

400

The term for an inanimate object that harbours microorganisms, such as dust or environmental surfaces.

What is a fomite?

400

This is the study of how drugs move through the body via absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. 

What is pharmacokinetics? 

400

This instrument is a hemostat. The serrations only go down halfway. 

What is a Kelly Hemostat? 

400

This instrument is often used with a piece of gauze wrapped like a diaper. 

What are Forester Sponge Sticks? 

400

Microbes that have been picked up or deposited onto the skin surface and are easily removed with handwashing are called ? microflora. 

What are transient microflora? 

500

Define an HAI and what was it called previously? 

What is a health-associated infection? It is acquired in a healthcare setting. Previously called a nosocomial infection. 
500

This is the study of how drugs affect the body and their interactions. 

What is Pharmacodynamics? 

500

This instrument is associated with a common angle.

What is a Mixter Right Angle Clamp? 

500

This self-retaining retractor has sharp, outward-curving tips and is commonly used to hold back tissue during smaller surgical procedures. 

What is the Gelpi retractor? 

500
Name the type of resistant form of bacteria that can survive adverse conditions by forming a protective shell is called... 

What is a spore?