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Definition of Terms Associated with Hospital Waste Management

1.   
Impact: The effect of something on
its environment.
2.   
Sewer: This is an underground pipe
that carries liquid waste from hospital to a place called sewage treatment
plant.
3.   
Scalps: A small sharp knife used by
doctors in medical operations.

4.   
Toxic: Containing poisonous
substance or thing.

5.   
Therapeutic: Designed to help treat an
illness.
6.   
Chemotherapy: The treatment of disease
especially cancer with the use of chemical substances.
7.   
Pathological: Something that causes or
that is connected with disease or illness.
8.   
Needles: A very pointed piece of
steel used on the end of a syringe for putting drugs into somebody or for
taking out of somebody.
9.   
Syringe: A plastic or glass tube
with a big hollow needle that is used for putting drugs into a person body or
for taking blood from a person.
10. Disposal: The act of getting rid of
something.
11. Waste: This is a substance
produced in man’s day to day activities through the process of consumption,
recreation and production which are unwanted and are no longer useful to man.
12. Reduction: Minimizing the generation
of waste at source.
13. Re-use: Treatment of waste for
recycling and reuse.
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