Chapter 5 Vocabulary Flashcards
Adipocere/Grave Wax
- soft, grayish white to brown, wax like material composed of oleic, politic, and steric (fatty acids).
- formed by the post-mortem hydrolysis and hydrogenation of body fats
Agonal Algor
Agonal Capillary Expansion
Agonal Dehydration
Agonal Edema
Agonal Fever
Agonal Hypostasis
Agonal Period
Anabolism
Autolysis
Biological Death
Cadaveric Spasm
Catabolism
Clinical Death
Contact Pallor
Death Rattle
Death Struggle
Decay
Desquamation
Extrinsic Factors
Fermentation
Hemolysis
Imbibition
Intrinsic Factors
Moribund
Postmortem Cellular Death
Post Mortem Chemical Changes
Rigor Mortis, Postmortem Stain, Postmortem Caloricity, Shifts in pH, Decomposition
Postmortem Physical Changes
Algor Mortis, Hypostasis, Livor Mortis, Dehydration, Increase in blood viscosity, Endogenous invasion of microorganisms
Primary Flaccidity
Ptomaine
Putrefaction
Secondary Flaccidity
Sludge
Somatic Death
Taphonomy
Translocation
Expert Tests of Death
Inexpert Tests of Death
Order of decomposition of body compounds
1.) Carbohydrates
2.) Soft Proteins
3.) Fats
4.)Hard Proteins
5.) Bones
Stages of Somatic Death
Clinical Death
Brain Death
Biological Death
Postmortem Cellular Death
Somatic Death
Clinical Death
Brain Death
Biological Death
Postmortem Cellular Death
Signs of Decomposition
Color, odor, skin slip, gases, and purge
Crepitation
