Mid-Term Flashcards
When designing an embalming room, an architect must be made aware that the minimum width for a doorway must be this many inches:
36 inches
This color of ceiling is a must for the preparation room:
White
The permissible short-term exposure limit of formaldehyde may not exceed:
2.0 ppm
The most notable among the health problems that can result from chemicals in the preparation room are:
Eye and nose irritations
The viscosity of blood refers to:
Thickness
This type of pressure is measured on the gauge of the centrifugal embalming machine, indicating the pressure in the delivery line of the machine with the rate of slow valve closed or the stop-cock turned off:
Potential
This type of pressure is read on the gauge on the centrifugal pump when the rate of flow valve is open and the arterial solution is entering the body:
Actual
These organs make up the tripod of life:
- Heart
- Lungs
- Brain
This type of disinfection is a method for breaking the cycle of transmission of infectious agents in the preparation room:
Primary
A rise in body temperature after death is:
Postmortem caloricity
Agonal or postmortem redistribution of host micro flora on a host-wide basis:
Translocation
A color change usually green in color:
Decomposition
Select the arterial fluid and prepare the embalming solution
- Autopsied
- Unautopsied
- Autopsied
* Unautopsied
Anchor the calvarium into position:
- Autopsied
- Unautopsied
Autopsied
Select the artery that will be used for injection and the vein that will be used for drainage, and make the incision:
- Autopsied
- Unautopsied
Unautopsied
Spray the inside walls of the cavity with a droplet disinfectant spray:
- Autopsied
- Unautopsied
Autopsied
After aspiration, inject the cavities via the trocar with an undiluted cavity fluid:
- Autopsied
- Unautopsied
Unautopsied
Decomposition of all tissues by enzymes that form without microbial assistance is defined as:
Autolysis
Postmortem stiffening of the body muscles by natural body processes is:
Rigor mortis
The most positive sign of death is:
Decomposition
This is classified as natural, suicide, homicide, accident, or unknown:
Manner of death
A heart attack is an example of:
Cause of death
Clinical death occurs when the following cease:
- Respiration
* Heartbeat
The pathological death of body cells as a result of disease processes:
Necrosis
The normal pH of a body is about:
7.4
This condition occurs 32-72 hours after death when rigor mortis leaves the body:
Secondary flaccidity
Which of the following is not one of the 5 signs of decomposition:
- Rigor mortis
- Color
- Odor
- Gas
Rigor mortis
This is applied either to inanimate objects / surfaces or to living tissues for the purpose of destroying disease causing microbial agents, but not usually bacterial spores:
Germicide
This is applied to an inanimate object / surfaces to destroy disease causing agents, but usually not bacterial spores:
Disinfectant
An extravascular blood discoloration that cannot be removed by arterial injection and blood drainage
Postmortem stain
Postmortem cooling of the body:
Algor mortis
Death of a person as a whole:
Somatic
Settling of blood into the dependent tissues of the body:
Hypostasis
An intravascular blood discoloration of the body that can be cleared through embalming:
Livor mortis
An embalming instrument used for blunt dissection and in raising vessels:
Aneurysm needle
List the 5 signs of decomposition:
- Color
- Odor
- Skin slip
- Gases
- Purge
List and define the 3 primary objectives accomplished by embalming:
- Disinfect: disinfect the body from microorganisms in order to prevent them spreading to the embalmer
- Preserve: slow the process of decomposition in order to allow viewing of the body
- Restore: restore the body as much as possible to help the body be available for viewing, regarding color, facial expression, etc.
This is a postmortem physical change:
Increased viscosity of the blood
This is a postmortem chemical change:
Decomposition
Type of change occurring in the body in livor mortis:
Postmortem physical
Type of change occurring in the body in agonal algor
Antemortem
Type of change occurring in the body in rigor mortis:
Postmortem chemical
Type of change occurring in the body in algor mortis:
Postmortem physical
Refers to the areas where blood movement has been inhibited:
Contact pallor
