Principles of Embalming 201 Test 2

suspended animation

A Temporary condition of apparent death.

Apparent death

A condition where vital signs (manifestations of life) are feebly maintained

Cooling or Lowering of body temperature prior to death

Agonal Algor

Caused by air entering the skeletal tissues, usually in the face, neck, and chest, due to some form of trauma to the lungs, and which can cause an incredible amount of distension in those areas:

Antemortem subcutaneous emphysema

The term usually applied to a dead human body used for anatomical or scientific study

Cadava

The Physiologic, or natural, death of body cells as they complete their life cycles is called

Necrobiosis

An example of the pathological death of body cells as a result of disease processes is called

Necrosis

The antemortem, pathological death of body cells as a result of disease processes (ex. decubitus ulcers) is called:

Necrosis

The decomposition of proteins by anaerobic bacteria is called

Putrefaction

Decomposition

Sign of death

Rigor mortis

Sign of death

Check all the apply: Death beginning at the heart

Syncope

Capillary permeability refers to the ability of the capillary walls to allow substance to pass between the capillary and surrounding tissue spaces

True

Desquamation is another term for skin slip

True

Gangreene is always an antemortem condition; it does not occur after death

True

Imbibition can result in swelling (or edema)

True

Livor mortis is a postmortem sign of death

True

Livor mortis is a postmortem, intravascular discoloration

True

Postmortem cellular death follows somatic death.

True

agonal capillary expansion means the capillaries become more permeable

True

The cooling of the body prior to death

agonal Algor

The antemortem clotting and congealing of blood

agonal coagulation

The antemortem clotting or congealing of blood

agonal coagulation

The loss of fluids or moisture in tissues prior to death

agonal dehydration

The antemortem accumulation of fluid in the tissues and body cavities

agonal edema

The increase in temperature of the body prior to death

agonal fever

The pathological death cells as a result of disease processes (ex. gangrene) is called necrosis

agree

Increase in amount of moisture or fluids in body tissues and body cavities before death

angonal edema

The occurrence of gangrene is an example of

antemortem & pathological death of cells

Check all that apply: Death beginning at the lungs

apnea, asphyxia

_________ cells die within minutes after death

brain

The first body compounds to decompose are

carbohydrates

Heat

causes increase in blood viscosity

Which type of somatic death is reversible?

clinical

The reversible stage of death

clinical death

The postmortem loss of moisture from body tissues by surface evaporation

dehydration

Agonal capillary expansion means the capillaries become less permeable

false

Increased capillary permeability would most likely have no effect on the translocation of microorganisms

false

Postmortem stain is a postmortem, intravascular discolration

false

The decomposition of carbohydrates is called

fermentation

An example of necrosis would be

gangrene

Caused by bacterial infection with Clostridium perfringens

gas gangrene

The postmortem settling of blood to the dependent, or lowest, parts of the body

hypostasis

Taking a person's pulse

inexpert test for death

The ammonia test is a

inexpert test of death

The decomposition of fats is called

lipolysis

The physiologic, or natural, death of cells, as they complete their life cycle, along with their replacement by new cells

necrobiosis

The pathological death of cells, due to disease processes, in the still-living body

necrosis

The two types of antemortem cellular death are

necrosis and necrobiosis

The decomposition of proteins is called

proteolysis

The decomposition of sugar is called

saccharolysis

Cessation of circulation is a:

sign of death

Clouding of the cornea

sign of death

Livor mortis is a

sign of death

Desquamation is a

sign of decomposition

Purge is a

sign of decomposition

Death of the organism as a whole is called

somatic death

Less viscous blood would:

speed onset of hypostasis

The Decomposition of proteins by aerobic bacteria is called

Decay

Your text says "Clinical death occurs when respiration and heartbeat irreversibly cease." Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Disagree

The pathological death of body cells as a result of disease processes is called

Everything says gangrene

A stetoscope

Expert test for death

Livor mortis is a sign of decomposition

False

Since hypostasis is intravascular, it can be removed by arterial injection/venous drainage

False