Vocabulary F, G

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Facies Hippocratica

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Facultative Aerobe

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Facultative Anaerobe

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Fat

Question 5

A product of decomposition of fats.

Answer 5

Fatty Acids

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Febrile

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Question 8

Bacterial decomposition of carbohydrates.

Answer 8

Fermentation

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Fever Blisters

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Filtration

Question 11

Rigidity of tissue due to chemical reaction.

Answer 11

Firming

Question 12

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

Answer 12

First Degree Burn (hyperemia)

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Fixation

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Fixative

Question 15

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).

Answer 15

Floater

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Flow Meter

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Fluid diffusion

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Fluid Distribution

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Fluorescein

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

Flush (flushing)

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Foramen Magnum

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Formaldehyde Demand

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Formaldehyde (HCHO, CH2O)

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Formaldehyde Grey

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Formaldehyde Rule

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Formalin

Question 27

Total evacuation (absence) of tissue.

Answer 27

Fourth Degree Burn

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Frenulum

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Furuncle (Boil)

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Fumigation

Question 31

Death of an organism as a whole.

Answer 31

Functional Death (somatic death)

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Fungicides

Question 33

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).

Answer 33

Gannal, Jean (1791-1882)

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Gangrene

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Dry Gangrene

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Moist (wet) Gangrene

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Gas Gangrene

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Germicide

Question 39

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.

Answer 39

Gooseneck

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Grave wax (adipocere)

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Gravity Filtration

Question 42

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).

Answer 42

Gravity Injector

Question 43

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.

Answer 43

Gravity Percolator/Gravity Bottle

Question 44

Instrument used to guide drainage tubes into veins.

Answer 44

Groove Director