Restorative Art Vocab C Flashcards
General deterioration of the body; a state of ill health, malnutrition, and wasting. It may occur in many chronic diseases as certain malignancies and advanced pulmonary tuberculosis.
Cachexia (Wasting Syndrome)
The term used to refer to a deceased person who is donated for medical research.
Cadaver
(1) Several communicating boils of the skin and subcutaneous tissues with the production and discharge of pus and dead tissue; (2) Circumscribed inflammation of the skin and deeper tissues that ends in suppuration and is accompanied by systemic symptoms, such as fever and leukocytosis.
Carbuncle
In cosmetology, a compressed powder.
Cake
Any malignant neoplasm, marked by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells.
Cancer
The dome-like superior portion of the cranium, that portion removed during cranial autopsy.
Calvarium
Any great distortion of facial proportions or malformity.
Cannon of Ugliness
Minute blood vessels, the walls of which comprise a single layer of endothelial cells. Capillaries connect the smallest arteries (arteriole) with the smallest veins (venule) and are where pressure filtration occurs.
Capillaries
Rosy flow in the cheeks.
Capillary Flush
Colorless crystals liquefied by water, which is an antiseptic/disinfectant and dries moist tissues and bleaches discolored tissue. This is a derivative of coal tars.
Carbolic Acid (Phenol)
A colorless liquid solvent banned to the public but available as a mortuary hair-cleaner.
Carbon Tetrachloride
Purplish-red in coloration.
Carmine
The yellow pigment of the skin.
Carotene
Pertaining to the wrist.
Carpal
A specialized type of dense connective tissue; attached to the ends of bones and forming parts of structure, such as the nasal septum and the framework of the ear.
Cartilage
Any object which has been made from a mold; the positive reproduction obtained from a negative impression.
Cast (Casting)
Pertaining to, or characteristic of the white race; the division of mankind comprising the chief races of Europe, North Africa and Southwestern Asia; named this race on the supposition that the people of the Caucasus were typical of the race.
Caucasian
A chemical capable of drying tissues by searing.
Caustic
A chemical capable of drying tissues by searing; caustic.
Cauterizing Agent
A hollow place or area.
Cavity
A substance used to promote the adhesion of two separated surfaces, such as the lips, the eyelids, or the margins of an incision.
Cement
Situated at or pertaining to a center.
Central
Brain and spinal cord.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Barrel-shaped organelle formed of microtubules and located near the nucleus of the cell; active in cell division.
Centriole
The head.
Cephalic
Brain region that is attached to the pons and smoothes and coordinates body movements.
Cerebellum
The narrow cavity of the midbrain that connects the third and forth ventricles.
Cerebral Aqueduct
The external, gray matter region of the cerebral hemispheres.
Cerebral Cortex
Neck; any neck-like structure.
Cervix
Reduced to carbon; the state of tissues destroyed by burning.
Charred
Funnel-shaped openings, especially of the posterior nares; one of the communicating passageways between the nasal fossae and the pharynx.
Choanae
The fleshy wall of the face below the eye; it is bounded superiorly by the eye and the zygomatic arch, posteriorly and inferiorly by the mandible, and anteriorly by the nose and naso-labial fold.
Cheek
Substances that bind metallic ions such as EDTA (Ethylenediamine-tetraceticacid) used as an anticoagulant in embalming solutions.
Chelate
The prominence overlying the mental eminence; located at the medial-inferior part of the face.
Chin (Mentum)
An apparatus employed to hold the lower jaw in position while embalming.
Chin Rest
A colorless volatile liquid (CHC13) having an etherial odor and sweetish taste; used as a solvent to smooth wax surfaces.
Chloroform
Color intensity or purity.
Chroma
A color having hue; a color of the visible spectrum.
Chromatic Color
The eyelashes.
Cilia
Motile, hair like projection from the apical surface of certain epithelial cells.
Cilium
Comprised of 9 arteries: The right and left internal carotid arteries, the anterior communicating artery, which serves to link the right and left anterior cerebral arteries, the right and left posterior cerebral arteries and the right and left posterior communicating arteries.
Circle of Willis
Identification of chromatic colors as Primary, Secondary, Intermediate or Tertiary.
Classification of Hues
Anaerobic, saprophytic, spore-forming bacterium responsible for tissue gas.
Clostridium Perfringens (Gas Bacillus, in death: Tissue Gas)
Snail-shaped chamber of the bony labyrinth in the inner ear; houses the receptor for hearing.
Cochlea (Spiral Organ, Organ or Corti)
Wet strips of cotton so placed as to support features during (and immediately after) arterial embalming.
Cold Water Sling
A clear syrup-like liquid which evaporates, leaving a contractile, white film; a liquid sealer.
Collodion
A suspension of pigments in a liquid vehicle bound together in such a manner that there is no separation of particles.
Colloid
A visual sensation perceived by the eye and the mind due to the activity and vibration of light.
Color
The cosmetically treated surface, substance used to produce the color of objects such as dyes, pigments, inks, and paints.
Colorant
Total or partial inability to distinguish and recognize colors.
Color Blind
Illumination of an identifiable hue.
Colored Light
Colored glass, gelatin, or other substances which transmits light of certain wave-lengths and absorbs the others.
Color Filter
A circle in which the primary, secondary, and intermediate hues are arranged in orderly intervals.
Color Wheel
The fleshy termination of the nasal septum at the base of the nose; located between the nostrils; the most inferior part of the mass of the nose.
Columna Nasi (Columna)
Directly opposite hues on the color wheel; any two pigmentary hues which, by their mixture in equal quantities, produce gray.
Complements
The color and texture of the skin, especially that of the face.
Complexion
A cosmetic preparation which combines all four of the basic pigment colors of the skin.
Complexion Compound
Any cosmetic preparation which restores or heightens the general coloring of the skin.
Complexion Cosmetic
Forming a part of ingredient.
Component
Composed of two or more parts; a combination of two or more basic pigments.
Compound
A broken bone which pierces the skin.
Compound Fracture
Gauze or absorbent cotton saturated with water or an appropriate chemical and placed under or upon tissue to preserve, bleach, dry, constrict, or reduce swelling.
Compress
A compress saturated with cavity embalming fluid.
Compress- Cavity Pack
Cotton saturated with cold water and used on surfaces to create external pressure.
Cold Water Compress
A surface compress.
Compress- External
A compress saturated with a chemical and placed under free tissues such as the lips, cheeks, eyelids, or flap of dissected skin.
Compress- Internal
A compress placed upon the skin or within excisions; it may be saturated with water or a chemical.
Compress- Surface
Exhibiting a depressed or hollow surface; a concavity.
Concave
(1) One in which the forehead protrudes forward from the eyebrows and the chin protrudes more than the upper lip. (2) A basic profile form in which the forehead protrudes beyond the eyebrows while the chin protrudes beyond the plane of the upper lip. (Least Common)
Concave Profile (Infantine, Retrousse)
A facial profile in which the forehead protrudes beyond the eyebrows while the chin recedes from the plane of the upper lip.
Concave- Convex Profile
A depressed profile form which may dip concavely from root to tip.
Concave Nasal Profile
A facial profile variation in which the forehead protrudes beyond the eyebrows while the upper lip and chin project equally to an imaginary vertical line.
Concave-Vertical Profile
Natural depressions of the face such as the eyesocket, temples, incisive fossa (inferior) and the hollows of the cheeks (buccal depressions).
Concavity, Natural
The concave shell of the ear; the deepest depression of the ear.
Concha
Treatments of a restorative nature performed during the embalming operation.
Concurrent
A rounded prominence at the end of a bone forming an articulation; the posterior process of the ramus of the mandible.
Condyle
Sensory nerves in the retina of the eye having to do with color detection.
Cones of the Eye
Mucous membrane that lines the eyelid and covers the white portion of the eye.
Conjunctiva
To contract or compress.
Constrict
The presence or the reasonably anticipated presence of blood or other potentially infectious materials on an item or surface.
Contaminated
The outline or surface form.
Contour
A bruise, suggulation, ecchymosis.
Contusion
The color of an object being converted or completely destroyed when one color of illumination strikes an object of a completely different color.
Conversion
Curved evenly; resembling a segment of the outer edge of a sphere.
Convex
(1) One in which the forehead recedes posteriorly from the eyebrow and the chin protrudes less than the upper lip. (2) A basic profile form in which the forehead recedes from the eyebrows while the chin recedes from the plane of the upper lip. (Most common).
Convex Profile
A profile variation in which the forehead recedes from the eyebrows while the chin protrudes beyond the plane of the upper lip.
Convex-Concave Profile
A nasal profile which exhibits a hump in its linear form.
Convex Nasal Profile (Roman, Aquiline)
A profile variation in which the forehead recedes from the eyebrows while the chin and upper lip project equally to an imaginary vertical line.
Convex-Vertical Profile
Blue, green, purple, or any intermediate pigmentary hue in which they predominate; a receding hue which creates the illusion of distance from the observer; a color of short wave lengths.
Cool Hue
Acting in harmonious combination; two compounds which are employed to provide a complexion coloring.
Coordinating
Vertical prominences of the neck; an acquired facial marking.
Cords of the Neck
The transparent structure which constitutes the anterior segment of the external layer of the eyeball.
Cornea
That portion of the cornea recovered for transplantation it situ. The cornea and the sclera considered together comprising the tunica fibrosa or fibrous coat of the eye.
Corneal Sclera Button
The extreme ends of the line of closure of the mouth; anguli oris.
Corners of the Mouth
The anterior, non-articulating process of the ramus of the mandible, which seres as the insertion for the temporalis muscle.
Coronoid Process
The legal term for a deceased human being.
Corpse
Having an abnormal amount of fat on the body.
Corpulence (Obesity)
A cosmetic technique which consists of highlighting those parts of the face or individual features to enlarge or bring them forward or shadowing them to reduce the appearance of size or deepen a depression.
Corrective Shaping with Cosmetics (Corrective Shaping)
A pyramid-shaped muscle of facial expression which draws the eyebrows inferiorly and medially.
Corrugator Muscle
The outer layer of an organ as distinguished from the inner medulla, as in the adrenal gland, kidney, ovary, lymph node, thymus, and cerebrum and cerebellum.
Cortex
A preparation for beautifying the complexion and skin, etc.
Cosmetic
The initial application of a cream or paste cosmetic to skin tissues.
Cosmetic Base
A cosmetic medium comprised of two, three, or all four basic pigments.
Cosmetic Compound
The process of applying cosmetics to a surface.
Cosmetizing
A professional trained in the application of cosmetics and the styling or hair.
Cosmetologist (Beautician, Cosmetist)
The study of beautifying and improving the complexion, skin, hair, and nails.
Cosmetology
After drying, a hard mass obtained by immersing absorbent cotton in a thin solution of plaster of paris.
Cotton and Plaster of Paris
Dye that helps to cover internal discolorations such as jaundice.
Counter Staining Compound
A long shell near the ceiling which directs the light rays upward.
Cove Lighting
That part of the human skull which encloses the brain.
Cranium
A semi-solid cosmetic.
Cream Cosmetic
Application of massage-cream or petroleum jelly to a surface.
Creaming
Crackling sensation produced when gases trapped in tissues are palpated, as in subcutaneous emphysema.
Crepitation
The top of a curve (as a wave) where the direction changes.
Crest
A disease of the central nervous system with unknown etiology assumed to be a slow virus; because of unknown etiology, care givers using invasive procedures use extreme caution.
Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease
The horizontal plate of the ethmoid bone separating the cranial cavity from the nasal cavity.
Cribriform Plate
Deep purplish-red in complexion.
Crimson
The topmost part of the head.
Crown (Vertex)
Bifurcation of the antihelix of the ear.
Crura
The superior and anterior bifurcating branches of the antihelix of the ear.
Crura of the Antihelix
The part of the helix of the ear which is flattened in the concha.
Crus
The origin of the helix which is flattened in the conchea.
Crus of the Helix
Pertaining to the forearm.
Cubital
A normal or abnormal bending or sloping away; a curve.
Curvature
Pertaining to the skin.
Cutaneous
A commercially-prepared solvent used to remove dead cuticle from the nails and obstinate scabs.
Cuticle Remover
A condition of skin puckering caused by the contraction of the erector pili.
Cutis Anserina
Bluish discoloration of the skin or mucous membrane due to lack of oxygen.
Cyanosis
A sac within or on the body surface containing air or fluid.
Cyst
