Part 3 Flashcards
It is the termination of life.
It is the complete cessation of all the vital functions without possibility of resuscitation.
It is an irreversible loss of the properties of living matter.
Death
This is the state of the body in which there is complete, persistent and continuous cessation of the vital functions of the brain, heart and lungs which maintain life and health.
Somatic death
Type of death wherein withdrawal and separation from the patient by others producing a sense of isolation and abandonment, unvisited and let alone to die.
Sociological death
Condition of death wherein the patient regresses, gives up or surrenders accepting death prematurely and refuses to continue living.
Psychic death
Type of death characterized by the absence of cognitive function or awareness, although artificial support system may maintain organs functioning.
Biologic death
Type of death when all vital organs cease to function.
Physiologic death
After cessation of the vital functions of the body there is still animal life among individual cells. After somatic death occurs there is death of all individual cells like nerve and brain cells within the body.
Molecular or Cellular death
This condition is not really death but merely a transient loss of the vital functions of the body on account of disease, external stimulus, or other forms of influence.
Apparent death
Like heart action, cessation of respiration in order to be considered as a sign of death must be continuous and persistent.
Stoppage of respiration
The progressive fall of the body temperature is one of the most prominent signs of death.
Algor mortis or cooling of the body
After death, there is complete relaxation of the whole muscular system. The entire muscular system is contractile for three to six hours after death, and later rigidity sets in.
Changes in the muscle
is the stage of muscular change upon death characterized the relaxation of muscles and loss of their natural tone.
Stage of primary flaccidity
It is the stiffening of the muscle of the body after death due to chemical changes within the muscle tissue
itself.
Stage of post-mortem rigidity
A muscular change characterized by the softness and flaccidity of the muscles in which no longer
responses to electrical or mechanical stimuli due to dissolution of the muscle protein
Stage of secondary flaccidity or secondary relaxation
condition characterized by hardening of the muscles due to coagulation of muscle proteins when the dead body is exposed to intense heat as by burning or immersion in a hot liquid.
Heat stiffening
