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Vocabulary F, G Flashcards

1
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Expression or appearance of the facial features after death. The look of death.

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Facies Hippocratica

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A microorganism that prefers an environment devoid of oxygen but has adapted so that it can live and grow in the presence of oxygen.

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Facultative Aerobe

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An organism that prefers an oxygen environment but is capable of living and growing in its absence.

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Facultative Anaerobe

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Organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; chemically, a triglyceride ester, composed of glycerol and fatty acids.

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Fat

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5
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A product of decomposition of fats.

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Fatty Acids

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Characterized by a high fever, causing dehydration of the body.

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Febrile

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Agency of federal government created in 1914 to promote free and fair competition by prevention of trade restraints, price fixing, false advertising and other unfair methods of competition.

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

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Bacterial decomposition of carbohydrates.

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Fermentation

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9
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Lesions of mucous membrane of the lip or mouth usually caused by Herpes Simplex type 1.

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Fever Blisters

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Removal of particles (liquid or solid) from a solution, as it passes through a membrane or other partial barrier.

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Filtration

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Rigidity of tissue due to chemical reaction.

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Firming

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An injury caused by heat which produces redness of the skin.

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First Degree Burn (hyperemia)

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The act of making tissue rigid. The solidification of a compound.

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Fixation

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14
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An agent employed in the preparation of tissues for the purpose of maintaining the existing form of the structure. Many agents are used, the most important one being formalin.

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Fixative

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A dead human body, in a body of water, which has generated sufficient decomposition asses to float to the surface of the water (face down).

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Floater

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16
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A supplemental piece of equipment attached to the embalming machine which measures the flow of fluids in both gallons per hour and ounce per minute.

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Flow Meter

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17
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The movement of the arterial solution through the capillaries into the intercellular spaces, from an intravascular to the extravascular position.

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Fluid diffusion

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18
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The movement of the arterial solution from the point of injection though the blood vascular system.

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Fluid Distribution

19
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A common dye which is used to test for blood circulation.

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Fluorescein

20
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Intravascular blood discoloration that occurs when arterial solution enters an area (such as the face), but due to blockage, blood and embalming solution are unable to drain from the area.

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Flush (flushing)

21
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An opening in the occipital bone through which the spinal cord passes from the brain.

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Foramen Magnum

22
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The amount of formaldehyde necessary to overcome any nitrogen residue and cause the body proteins to become coagulated.

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Formaldehyde Demand

23
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Colorless, strong-smelling gas that when used in solution is a powerful preservative and disinfectant; a potential occupational carcinogen.

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Formaldehyde (HCHO, CH2O)

24
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Grey discoloration of the body caused by the reaction of formaldehyde from the embalming process with hemoglobin to form methyl hemoglobin.

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Formaldehyde Grey

25
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OSHA regulation limiting the amount of occupation exposure to formaldehyde gas.

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Formaldehyde Rule

26
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A mixture of formaldehyde gas dissolved in water with 40% by volume and 37% by weight and contains 7% methyl alcohol to prevent polymerization.

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Formalin

27
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Total evacuation (absence) of tissue.

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Fourth Degree Burn

28
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The vertical restraining fold of mucous membrane on the midline of the inside of each lip with the gum.

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Frenulum

29
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An abscess or pyogenic infection of a sweat gland or hair follicle.

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Furuncle (Boil)

30
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A process in which a gaseous agent is used to destroy rodents or insects, which act as disease carriers.

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Fumigation

31
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Death of an organism as a whole.

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Functional Death (somatic death)

32
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Chemical agents capable of destroying, and/or inhibiting the growth of saprophytic or pathogenic fungi, including molds.

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Fungicides

33
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An influential person in medical embalming who was the first to make embalming available to the public and who also wrote the first embalming text (first printing in french) (French).

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Gannal, Jean (1791-1882)

34
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Necrosis, death of tissues of part of the body usually due to deficient or absent blood supply.

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Gangrene

35
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Condition that results when the body part that dies had little blood and remains aseptic; the arteries but not the veins are obstructed.

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Dry Gangrene

36
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Necrotic tissue that is wet a a result of inadequate venous drainage; by be accompanied by bacterial infection.

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Moist (wet) Gangrene

37
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Antemortem necrosis in a wound infected by an anaerobic gas forming bacillus, the most common etiologic agent being Clostridium perfringens.

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Gas Gangrene

38
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Chemicals which kill or render incapable of reproducing disease causing microorganisms.

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Germicide

39
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Rubber stopper containing two tubes, one to create a vacuum or pressure and the other to deliver fluid or achieve aspiration; possibly used in conjunction with a hand pump.

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Gooseneck

40
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Soft whitish crumbly or greasy material that forms upon the postmortem hydrolysis and hydrogenation of body fats.

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Grave wax (adipocere)

41
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Extravascular movement of preservative fluids by gravitational force to the dependent areas of the body.

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Gravity Filtration

42
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Apparatus used to inject arterial fluid during the vascular (arterial) phase of the embalming process; relies on gravity to create the pressure required to deliver the fluid (.43 pounds of pressure per one foot of elevation).

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Gravity Injector

43
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A method of creating injection pressure which consists of a gravity bottle with tubing attached, that is suspended at a desired distance about the point of injection.

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Gravity Percolator/Gravity Bottle

44
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Instrument used to guide drainage tubes into veins.

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Groove Director

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