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intact skin

English translation: skin that is not broken or cracked

09:34 Oct 4, 2006
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Instruments
English term or phrase: intact skin
Reusable xxxx that do not touch the patient or touch only intact skin and are not involved with patients with possible disease transmission require thorough cleaning with a detergent or low-level disinfectant.

What does "intact skin" mean here?

TIA!
Jianming Sun
Local time: 11:52
Selected answer:skin that is not broken or cracked
Explanation:
as can happen with overly dry skin

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Note added at 8 mins (2006-10-04 09:42:41 GMT)
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skin without scratches, wounds, cracks or whatever
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Jonathan MacKerron
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2 +11skin that is not broken or cracked
Jonathan MacKerron
5free of any break in the epidermis
Michael Barnett


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +11
skin that is not broken or cracked


Explanation:
as can happen with overly dry skin

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Note added at 8 mins (2006-10-04 09:42:41 GMT)
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skin without scratches, wounds, cracks or whatever

Jonathan MacKerron
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thank you all for kind help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Siegfried Armbruster: healthy skin, skin with scratches, wounds, cracks or whatever is IMO no longer healthy
5 mins
  -> not necessarily, you can have healthy skin and still scratch yourself
agree  avsie (X): yes, without scratches, wounds, cracks or whatever ;-)
17 mins
agree  William [Bill] Gray
17 mins
agree  Louise Mawbey: yes, skin which is not "open" in any way.
25 mins
agree  Astrid Elke Witte
1 hr
agree  Rachel Fell
1 hr
agree  ErichEko ⟹⭐
1 hr
agree  jccantrell
4 hrs
agree  astroo13
8 hrs
agree  Alexandra Tussing
9 hrs
agree  Alfa Trans (X)
4 days
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
free of any break in the epidermis


Explanation:
If you want a technical answer that is it. The outer layer of the skin must be unbroken (intact). Technically, the skin need not even be healthy - it could be covered with neurofibromas and cafe au lait spots, but as long as the epidermis is not broken, it is intact.

Michael Barnett
Local time: 23:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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