Hand scrubbing procedure for surgery<unk>  is the state of being free from disease-causing micro-organisms (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses, pathogenic fungi, and parasites). There are two categories of<unk> : medical and surgical. The modern day notion of<unk>  is derived from the older antiseptic techniques, a shift initiated by different individuals in the 19th century who introduced practices such as the sterilizing of surgical tools and the wearing of surgical gloves during operations. The goal of<unk>  is to eliminate infection, not to achieve sterility. Ideally, a surgical field is sterile, meaning it is free of all biological contaminants (e.g. fungi, bacteria, viruses), not just those that can cause disease, putrefaction, or fermentation. Even in an aseptic state, a condition of sterile inflammation may develop. The term often refers to those practices used to promote or induce<unk>  in an operative field of surgery or medicine to prevent infection.
Asepsis
Q fever
Sepsis
Tumor lysis syndrome
Enterotoxemia
Culture-bound syndrome
Proteus syndrome
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome