Vocabulary (D's) Flashcards
(1452-1519) Italian sculptor and painter produced anatomical plates injected the arterial system for preservation of anatomical specimens.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Irreversible cessation of all vital functions (Nonlegal Definition).
Death
A list of dead to be prayed for.
Death Bill
A luminous appearance like a candle flame, superstitiously thought to prestage death.
Death Candle
A kind of ignis fatuus (glow) supposed to forebode death.
Death Fire
Stroke or tolling of a death bell.
Death Kneel
A relation or ration of the number of deaths, for a given period, to the total population.
Death Rate
Noise made by a moribund person caused by air passing through a residue of mucous in the trachea and posterior oral cavity.
Death Rattle
The semi-convulsive twitches which often occur before death.
Death Struggle
Spasm of death.
Death Throe
Signal of approaching death.
Death Token
A condition in which the muscle become rigidly fixed, the body becomes pale and cold, pulse and respiration are feeble.
Death Trance
A small weight, such as a penny, laid on the eyelids to keep them closed.
Death Weight
One liable to death, a mortal.
Deathling
Separation of compounds into simpler substances by the action of Microbal and/ or autolytic enzymes.
Decomposition
Inactivation or removal of microbal toxins, as well as of living microbial pathogens themselves.
Decontamination
Below the surface.
Deep
Loss of moisture from body tissue which may occur antemortem or postmortem (antemortem febrile disease, diarrhea or ernesis, postmortem injection of embalming solution or through absorption by the air.
Dehydration
A protein whose structure has been changed by physical or chemical agents.
Denatured Protein
An expression of the definition of mammals. The number of teeth are given in form of a fraction, with the number of upper teeth over the number of lower teeth. Using I for incisor, c for canine, b for bicuspid, pm for premolar, and m for molar.
Dental Formula
(Buck Teeth) oblique insertion of the teeth.
Dental Prognathism
One of several methods used for mouth closure.
Dental Tie
Chemicals having the capability of displacing an unpleasant odor or of altering an unpleasant odor so that it is converted to a more pleasant one.
Deodorants aka Masking Agents aka Perfuming Agents
The deep layer of skin under the epidermis.
Derma aka Dermis aka Skin aka Corium aka True Skin
General inflammation of the skin.
Dermatitis
A disease or disorder of the skin.
Dermatosis
Rendered thoroughly dry, exhausted of moisture.
Desiccation
Areas of embalmed tissue where excessive dehydration has occurred.
Dessication Marks
Sloughing off of the epidermis, wherein there is a separation of the epidermis from the underlying dermis formally referred to as skin slip.
Desquamation aka Skin Slip
A variation from the common or established.
Deviations
A vascular incision made on vessels by cutting in an oblique or slanting direction.
Diagonal Incision
The condition of the heart being enlarged, occurring normally artificially, or as a result of disease.
Dilatation (Dilation)
Separation of substances in solution by the difference in their rates of diffusion through a semipermeable, membrane.
Dialysis aka Selective Diffusion
Relaxation phase of the heart action, or beat.
Diastole
The difference between potential and actual pressure.
Differential Pressure
The movement of molecules or other particles in solution from an area of greater concentration to an area of lessor concentration until uniform concentration is reached.
Diffusion
Passage of some components of the injected embalming solution from an intravascular to an extravascular location; movements of the embalming solutions from the capillaries into the interstitial fluids.
Diffusion Solution
Anatomical term describing fingers and toes; the thumb is #1 for each hand and the large toe is #1 for each foot.
Digits
Substances thinned or reduced in concentration; a cosmetic lessened in brilliance.
Dilution
An acute infectious disease characterized by the formation of a false membrane on any mucous surface.
Diptheria
Disjoining of bones.
Disarticulate
Unchecked putrefaction eventually resulting in a complete breakdown and disappearance of all body structures, except the bones
Disintegration
Any abnormal color in or upon the human body.
Discoloration
Any deviaition from or interruption of the normal structure or function of a body part, organ, or system.
Disease
Act of cutting apart. Distend. To expand or swell.
Dissection
An agent, usually chemical, applied to inanimate objects/surfaces to destroy disease causing microbial agents, but usually not bacterial spores.
Disinfectant
The destruction and/or inhibition of most pathogenic organisms and their products in or on the body.
Disinfection
State of stretching out or becoming inflated.
Distension aka Swelling
The movement of embalming solutions from the point of injection throughout the arterial system and into the capillaries.
Distribution Solution
A state of being twisted or pushed out of natural shape or position.
Distortion
Toward the back; opposite of anterior.
Dorsal aka Posterior
A wooden or metal rod used as an armature.
Dowel
Tubular instrument of varying diameter and shape, preferable with a plunger, that is inserted into a vein to aid in drainage of blood and to restrict the exit of vascular embalming solution.
Drain Tube
Discharge or withdrawal of blood, interstitial fluid and embalming fluids from the body during vascular embalming. Usually removed through a vein of the body.
Drainage
An embalming instrument which allows the removal of blood from the body without using the conventional drain tube.
Drainage Forceps
OSHA required safety device for a release of a copious amount of water in a short time.
Drench Shower
Preparation room equipment which is specifically designed for the dressing of the deceased.
Dressing Table
Antemortem discolorations resulting from the administration of drugs or chemotherapeutic agents..
Drug Discoloration
Condition that results when the body part that dies has little blood and remains aseptic and occurs when the arteries but not the veins are obstructed.
Dry Gangrene
Substances which will, upon being dissolved, impart a definite color to the embalming solution. They are classified as to their capacity to permanently impart color to the tissue of the body which they are injected.
Dye aka Coloring Agent
Difficult or painful breathing.
Dyspnea
Decomposition of proteins by enzymes of aerobic bacteria.
Decay
