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Across 1. contamination of a person or object by another 6. gown and gloves 8. the presence of pathogenic materials 12. to reduce to an irreducible minimum the presence of pathogenic material 14. principles applied through use of sterile technique to prevent microbial contamination on the surgical environment 15. mechanically clean and chemically disinfected but not sterile 16. infection of the surgical wound that was acquired during the surgical procedure 17. kill most microbes, but not spores 18. absence of pathogenic microorganism

Down 2. contamination of a sterile field that occurs through the passage of fluid through, or puncture in, a mircobial barrier 3. solution used to perform surgical scrub as well as prep patients surgical site 4. harbor microorganisms than can potentially cause infection of the surgical site 5. area of sterility maintained during a procedure 7. most commonly transmitted pathogen on the OR 9. process where most but not all microorganism on animate objects/skin are destroyed 10. rendered free of all living microorganisms, including spores 11. destruction of all mircoorganism, including spores on inanimate objects 13. patients own endogenous flora