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Question 1

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

Answer 1

Necrosis

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Necrobiosis

Question 3

Decrease in body temperature immediately before death.

Answer 3

Agonal algor

Question 4

Increase in body temperature immediately before death

Answer 4

Agonal fever

Question 5

is the settling of blood into the dependent tissues of the body. It occurs as a result of the slowing of circulation just prior to death.

Answer 5

Agonal hypostasis

Question 6

edema, in the increase amount of moisture, or fluids in the tissues and body cavity
Dehydration, decrease in the amount of moisture, or fluids, in the tissue or body cavity

Answer 6

Agonal moisture changes

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Translocation

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Tissue gas

Question 9

Postmortem cooling of the body to the surrounding temperature.

Answer 9

Algor Mortis

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Hypostasis

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Viscosity

Question 12

Postmortem intravascular red-blue discoloration resulting from hypostasis of blood

Answer 12

Livor Mortis

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Dehydration

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Postmortem Caloricity

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Postmortem stain

Question 16

Postmortem stiffening if the body muscles by natural body processes.

Answer 16

Rigor Mortis

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Autolysis

Question 18

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 inro amino acids.

Answer 18

Hydrolysis

Question 19

Decomposition of proteins.

Answer 19

Proteolysis

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Putrefaction

Question 21

Decomposition of proteins by enzymes of anerobic bacteria.

Answer 21

Decay

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Desquamation(skin-slip)