Agonal & Postpartum Change

Question 1

Decrease in body temperature immediately before death.

Answer 1

Agonal Algor

Question 2

Increase in body temperature immediately before death.

Answer 2

Agonal Fever

Question 3

Is the settling of blood into the dependent tissues of the body.

Answer 3

Agonal Hypostasis

Question 4

Moisture change during the agonal period,

Answer 4

Agonal moisture changes

Question 5

Postmortem cooling of the body to the surrounding temperature.

Answer 5

Algor mortis

Question 6

Self-destruction of cells, Decomposition of all tissues by enzymes that form without microbial assistance.

Answer 6

Autolysis

Question 7

Decomposition of proteins by enzymes of aerobic bacteria,

Answer 7

Decay

Question 8

Loss of moisture from body tissue that may occur antemortem or post mortem (antemortem: febrile disease, diarrhea, or emesis; postmortem: injection of embalming solution or through absorption by the air.)

Answer 8

Dehydration

Question 9

Sloughing off of the epidermis, wherein there is a separation of the epidermis from the underlying dermis.

Answer 9

Desquamation

Question 10

Reaction in which water is one of the reactants and compounds are often broken down, In the hydrolysis of proteins the addition of water accompanied by the action of enzymes results in the breakdown of protein into amino acids,

Answer 10

Hydrolysis

Question 11

Settling of blood and/or fluids to dependent portions of the body.

Answer 11

Hypostasis

Question 12

Postmortem intravascular red-blue discoloration resulting from hypostasis of blood. Also known as cadaveric lividity,

Answer 12

Livor Mortis

Question 13

Antemortem, physiological death of the cells of the body followed by the their replacement.

Answer 13

Necrobiosis

Question 14

Pathological death of a tissue still a part of the living organism.

Answer 14

Necrosis

Question 15

Rise in body temperature after death due to continued cellular metabolism.

Answer 15

Postmortem caloricity

Question 16

Extravascular color change that occurs when heme, released by hemolysis of red blood cells, seeps through the vessel walls and into the body tissues.

Answer 16

Postmortem stain

Question 17

Decomposition of proteins.

Answer 17

Proteolysis

Question 18

Decomposition of proteins by the action of enzymes from anaerobic bacteria.

Answer 18

Putrefaction

Question 19

Postmortem stiffening of the body muscles by natural body processes,

Answer 19

Rigor mortis

Question 20

Postmortem accumulation of gas in tissues or cavities brought about by an anaerobic gas-forming bacillus.

Answer 20

Tissue gas

Question 21

Agonal or postmortem redistribution of host microflora on a host wide basis.

Answer 21

Translocation

Question 22

Resistance to the flow of liquid, Thickness of a liquid.

Answer 22

Viscosity