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In health care facilities, isolation represents one of several measures that can be taken to implement in infection control: the prevention of communicable diseases from being transmitted from a patient to other patients, health care workers, and visitors, or from outsiders to a particular patient.

Related Definition

  1. isolation:

    n (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.

    n The act of isolating.

    n (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).

    n (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture

    n (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)

    n (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.

    n (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.


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