Vocab for Exam 3 Flashcards
Relaxation phase of the heart action, or beat.
Diastole
Decomposition of proteins by enzymes or aerobic bacteria.
Decay
A specific antibody acting destructively upon cells and tissues.
Lysin
Antemortem and/or postmortem settling of blood and/or other fluids to dependent portions of the body.
Hypostasis
Positive intravascular pressure causing passage of embalming solution through the capillary causing passage of embalming fluid from an intravascular to a wall to diffuse with the interstitial fluids; extravascular position.
Pressure Filtration
A kind of ignis fatuus (glow) supposed to forbode death.
Death Fire
To force a fluid though (an organ or tissue), especially by way of the blood vessels; injection during vascular (arterial) embalming.
Perfusion
A type of arterial fluid which contains inactive dyes that will not impart a color change upon the body tissues of the deceased.
Non-Cosmetic Fluid (Passive Dye)
A solution having a lesser concentration of dissolved solute than the solution to which it is compared.
Hypotonic Solution
A poisonous substance of plant, animal, bacterial or fungal origin.
Toxin
Separation of compounds into simples substances by the action of microbial and/or autolytic enzymes.
Decomposition
An agent used to remove chemical constituents from municipal water supplies that could interfere with drainage and preservation.
Water Conditioner
Noise made by a moribund person caused by air passing through a residue of mucous in the trachea and posterior oral cavity.
Death Rattle
Abnormal accumulation of fluids in tissue or body cavities.
Edema (Dropsy)
The passage of solvent from a solution of lesser to one of greater solute concentration when the two solutions are separated by a semipermeable membrane.
Osmosis
(Hindered Diffusion)
A chemical for purposes other than preservation and disinfection.
Supplemental Chemical
Organic compound found in plants and animals; can be broken down into amino acids.
Protein
A preparation aid used in mouth closure. It is inserted into a needle injector and forced into the mandible and maxilla.
Injector Needle
An official of a local community who holds inquests concerning sudden, violent, and unexplained deaths.
Coroner
Chemicals which kill or render incapible of reproducing disease causing microorganisms.
Germicide
An amorphus, nonvolitile solid or soft side substance, a natural exudation from plants any of a class of solid or soft organic compounds of natural or synthetic origin.
Resinous Substance
Between the cells of a structure.
Intercellular
A mechanical device used to impel specially designed metal pins into bone.
Needle Injector
The semi-convulsive twitches which often occur before death.
Death Struggle
A microorganism that prefers an environment devoid of oxygen, but has adapted so that it can live and grow in the presence of oxygen.
Facultative Aerobe
As related to decomposition, the conversion of fatty tissues of the body into a soapy waxy substance called adipocere or grave wax.
Saponification
(Process of Soap Formation)
The substance that is dissolved in a solution.
Solute
The non-protein portion of hemoglobin; the red pigment of the hemoglobin.
Heme
A solution having a greater concentration of dissolved soute than the solution to which it is compared.
Hypertonic Solution
Procedures that isolate or remove the bloodborne pathogen hazard from the workplace such as: sharps disposal contain, self sheathing needles.
Engineering Controls
A liquid holding another substance in solution.
Solvent
A condition in which the muscles become rigidly fixed, the body becomes pale and cold, pulse and respiration are feeble.
Death Trance
Sharply pointed surgical instrument used in cavity embalming to aspirate the cavities and inject cavity fluid. This may also be used for supplemental hypodermic embalming.
Trocar
A luminous appearance like a candle flame, superstitiously thought to prestage death.
Death Candle
A process to promote and establish conditions which minimize or eliminate biohazards.
Sanitation
The direct contact of body tissues with embalming chemicals.
Surface Embalming
Drug-induced edema wherein the excess fluid is located within the cell. Upon palpation, there is no noticeable depression.
Solid Edema
Inactivation or removal of microbial toxins, as well as of living microbial pathogens themselves.
Decontamination
The red respiratory portion of the red blood cells; iron containing pigment of red blood cells functioning to carry oxygen to the cells.
Hemoglobin
Chemicals which inactivate saprophytic bacteria, render unsuitable for nutrition the media upon decomposition which such bacteria thrive, and which will arrest by altering enzymes and lysins of the body as well as coverting the decomposable tissue to a form less susceptible to decomposition.
Preservative (Fixers)