Test 4 List Questions

Question 1

List the effects that refrigeration has on a dead human body

Answer 1

1) Blood tends to remain very liquid; hypostasis to hemolysis is rapid
2) increase in intravascular blood discoloration into dependent body tissue eventually becoming extra vascular
3) refrigerated bodies often appear embalmed because of cold stiffening and red blood discoloration that resemble active dye in arterial fluid
4) slows the onset of rigor mortis and decomp-hinders growth of bacteria
5) increases onset of algor mortis
6) freezer burn to surface tissue similar to to desiccation marks will occur during extended refrigeration

Question 2

Antemortem or agonal desquamation is skin slip due to these conditions existing prior to death

Answer 2

1) Edema-most common-anasarca
2) I.V. Needle-infiltration
3) old and emaciated with unhealthy or degenerative epidermal tissue-diabetes
4) bandages carelessly pulled off

Question 3

Temperature-one of the most important factors affecting bacterial growth

Answer 3

1) optimum-98 degrees F to 100 degrees F or body temperature
2) Minimum-32 degrees F
3) maximum 120 degrees F (which stops most decomposition)

Question 4

Physical methods of reducing rigor mortis

Answer 4

1) flexing
2) extending
3) rotation
4) massaging

Question 5

Characteristics of rigor mortis-muscle will become

Answer 5

1) shortened
2) stiffened
3) acid in reaction
4) loss of sensitivity to stimuli

Question 6

The cardinal signs of decomposition

Answer 6

1) color
2) odor
3) purge
4) skin slip ( Desquamation )
5) accumulated gas
6) decomposition is the only positive sign of death

Question 7

Causes of postmortem caloricity

Answer 7

1) heat is continuously produced after death by the oxidation of food products in tissues
2) the various methods of cooling the body, such as circulation, perspiration, and respiration have ceased, causing heat to accumulate in tissues
3) the activity of bacteria prior to death causing energy and heat to build up in tissues-septicemia or any febrile ineffective disease
4) excessive muscular activity; an example would be the spasms produced by strychnine poisoning

Question 8

Post Mortimer physical changes are brought about by

Answer 8

1) stoppage of blood circulation
2) gravitation of blood to the dependent parts of the body
3) environmental surface evaporation