* Embalming Quizzes (Spring Semester)

Ideal rate of flow for embalming the "normal" adult body

10 to 15 minutes per gallon

Ideal fluid strength for embalming the "normal" adult body

2 to 3%

Ideal pressure for embalming the "normal" adult body

5 to 20 lbs.

Ecchymosis discoloration?

Antemortem extravascular blood discoloration

Carbon monoxide poisoning discoloration?

Antemortem intravascular blood discoloration

When do you remove a pacemaker?

Before Cremation

When do you remove a colostomy bag?

Before or after embalming

The portion of the skull removed during a cranial autopsy:

Calvarium

All types of this discoloration are antemortem and are caused by specific drugs.

Drug and/or therapeutic discoloration

T or F? Autopsy gel is a chemical in powder form that absorbs, disinfects, and is often used in cavity treatment of autopsied cases.

False

Another name for autopsy:

Necropsy

When do you remove intravenous needles?

Post Embalming

Postmortem stain discoloration?

Postmortem extravascular blood discoloration

Livor mortis discoloration?

Postmortem intravascular blood discoloration

T or F? To tighten sutures pull on the thread, not the needle.

True

Under which of the following circumstances would a hospital seek permission from the family to perform an autopsy:

When doctors have not made a firm diagnosis.

Which of the following instruments would be used to inject two arteries at the same time:

Y-Tube

The pressure indicated by the injector gauge needle when the arterial tube is open and the arterial solution is flowing into the body.

actual pressure

Great perservative demand.

after rigor

Method of drainage in which embalming solution is injected and then injection is stopped while drainage is open.

alternate drainage

This is also known as generalized edema.

anasarca

Localized abnormal dialation or out-pocketing of a blood vessel resulting from a congenital defect or a weakness of the vessel wall.

aneurysm

The congealing of blood in an artery.

arterial coagula

Mixture of arterial (vascular) fluid and water used for the arterial injection. May include supplemental fluids.

arterial solution

A thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity in walls of the arteries.

arteriosclerosis

Which of the following is not a systemic effect of a malignancy:

arteriosclerosis

Accumulation of the serous fluids in the peritoneal cavity.

ascites

Withdrawal of gas, fluids, and semisolids from body cavities and hollow viscera.

aspiration

Self-destruction of cells:

autolysis

Considered the most secure and commonly used suture, it can be airtight.

baseball suture

This discoloration can be antemortem or postmortem, intravascular of extravascular.

blood discoloration

These sutures are temporary and are later replaced by more permanent sutures.

bridge suture

If the artery has formed this condition it cannot be used for injection.

canalization

The two most commonly used injection sites for embalming children aged 4-12 years old are:

carotid and femoral arteries

This type of embalming fluid is never diluted.

cavity

Usually accomplished by aspiration and then injection of chemicals using a trocar.

cavity embalming

Method of drainage in which drainage occurs continuously during vascular injection.

concurrent drainage

Removal of the brain only.

cranial autopsy

The separation of compounds into simpler substances by the action of microbial and/or autolytic enzymes.

decomposition

This discoloration is brought about by the action of autolytic and bacterial enzymes as well as the hemolysis of red blood cells.

decomposition discoloration

Loss of moisture from body tissue that may occur antemortem or postmortem:

dehydration

Loss of moisture from body tissue.

dehydration

Suturing thread materials include:

dental floss, cotton, linen

The difference between potential and actual pressures.

differential pressure

Any abnormal color in or on the human body.

discoloration

Abnormal accumulation of fluids in tissue or body cavities.

edema

Device that uses a motor to create a suction for the purpose of aspiration.

electric aspirator

An enzyme of this type of discoloration is razor burn, dehydration of tissues and formaldehyde gray.

embalming discoloration

A detached blood clot.

embolus

Pressure on the outside of an artery or vein is referred to as

extravascular resistance

T/F? Restricted cervical injection allows small volumes of weak arterial solution to be injected without over-embalming the head.

false

T/F? The best way to warm frozen tissue is by running warm water over it.

false

A medicolegal autopsy.

forensic autopsy

Sugar in the urine

glycosuria

It is connected to the water supply and when the water is turned on, a suction is developed.

hydro aspirator

Abnormal accumulation of the cerebrospinal fluids in the ventricals of the brain.

hydrocephalus

Abnormal accumulation of fluid in the thoracic cavity.

hydrothorax

Excess sugar in the blood

hyperglycemia

This type of solution contains large colloid molecules that help to draw the edema from the tissues into the circulatory system.

hypertonic arterial solution

Solution having a greater concentration of dissolved solute than the solution with which it is compared.

hypertonic solution

This type of solution helps the tissues to retain moisture.

hypotonic arterial solution

Solution having a lesser concentration of dissolved solute than the solution with which it is compared.

hypotonic solution

It is approximately 12 inches in length and about 1/4 inches in diameter.

infant trocar

The amount of pressure produced by an injection device to overcome initial resistance within (intravascular) or on (extravascular) the vascular system (arterial or venous).

injection pressure

An embalming technique that employs a very strong arterial solution (often waterless).

instant tissue fixation

Method of drainage in which the drainage is stopped at intervals while the injection continues.

intermittent drainage

Fluid in the supporting connective tissues surrounding body cells (about 1/5 the body weight).

interstitial fluid

Within the blood vascular system.

intravascular

Pressure developed as the flow of embalming solution is established and the elastic arterial walls expand and then contract, resulting in filling of the capillary beds and development of pressure filtration.

intravascular pressure

An acidosis of the blood and body tissues

ketosis

The chemicals used for surface embalming may be:

liquid, gel, powder

Which of the following is not a mechanical aid:

lowering the arms

The cavity of a vein, artery, or intestine.

lumen

Vascular injection from two or more arteries.

multi-point injection

This is a method of trocar closure.

n-stitch

When suturing a cranial autopsy begin:

on the right side of the head and end of the left

Injection and drainage from one location.

one-point injection

By definition only 1 body cavity is opened.

partial autopsy

Fluids follow this.

path of least resistance

An example of this type of discoloration is chronic renal failure that takes on the appearance of mild jaundice.

pathological discoloration

An extravascular color change:

postmortem stain

Pressure indicated by the injector gauge needle when the injector motor is running and the arterial tubing is clamped off.

potential pressure

Great absorption of the preservative solution and firming is good.

pre-rigor

Postmortem evacuation of any substance from an external orifice of the body as a result of pressure.

purge

Repeat aspiration of a cavity.

re-aspriation

Method of injection wherein both common carotids are raised.

restricted cervical injection

The embalming solution that leaves the capillaries and eventually embalms the cells.

retained embalming fluid

Little absorption of the preservative arterial solution.

rigor

Post mortem stiffening of the body muscles by natural body processes:

rigor mortis

An extravascular irregularly shaped blood discoloration that often appears on the arms and back of the hands, also called ecchymosis.

senile purpura

This suture is made with 1 needle and a single thread. It is used on exposed areas of the body and is directed through the subcutaneous tissue only.

single intradermal suture

By definition, injection involving both common carotid, femoral, and axillary vessels.

six-point injection

Injection from one site and drainage from a separate site.

split injection

A fetus that dies prior to delivery from the uterus.

stillborn

Two types of supplemental embalming are:

surface and hypodermic

This instrument is used for adult cavity embalming.

trocar

T/F? Edema is said to be established when there is a 10% increase in total body water.

true

Constriction of a blood vessel.

vasoconstriction

Dialation of a blood vessel.

vasodialation

Also known as the inversion suture, it is used to gather in and turn under excess tissues.

worm suture