Vocabulary (F's) Flashcards
Expression or appearance of the facial features after death. The look of death.
Facies Hippocratica
A microorganism the prefers an environment devoid of oxygen but has adapted so that it can live and grow in the presence of oxygen.
Facultative Aerobe
An organism that prefers an oxygen environment but is capable of living and growing in its absence.
Falcultative Anaerobe
Organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; chemically, a triglyceride ester, composed of glycerol and fatty acids.
Fat
A product of decomposition of fats.
Fatty Acids
Characterizted by a high fever, causing dehydration of the body.
Febrile
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.
Federal Trade Commission aka FTC
Bacterial decomposition of carbohydrates.
Fermentation
Lesions of the mucous membrane of the lip or mouth usually caused by Herpes simplex type 1.
Fever Blisters
Removal of particles (liquid or solid) from a solution, as it passes through a membrane or other partial barrier.
Filtration
Rigidity of tissue due to chemical reaction.
Firming
An injury caused by heat which produces redness of the skin.
First Degree Burn
The act of making tissue rigid. The solidification of a compound.
Fixation
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 fomalin.
Fixative
A dead human body, in a body of water, which has generated sufficient decomposition gasses to float to surface of the water (face down).
Floater
A supplemental pieces of equipment attached to the embalming machine which measures the flow of fluids in both gallons per hour and ounces per minute.
Flow Meter
The movement of the arterial solution from the point of injection through the blood vascular system.
Fluid Distribution
A common dye which is used to test for blood circulation.
Fluorescein
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.
Flush aka Flushing
An opening in the occipital bone through which the spinal cord passes from the brain.
Foramen Magnum
That amount of formaldehyde necessary to overcome any nitrogen residue and cause the body proteins to become coagulated.
Formaldehyde Demand
Grey discoloration of the body caused by the reaction of formaldehyde from the embalming process with hemoglobin to form methyl hemoglobin.
Formaldehyde Grey
OSHA regulation limiting the amount of occupation exposure to formaldehyde gas.
Formaldehyde Rule
A mixture of formaldehyde gas dissolved in water with 40% by volume, 37% by weight and contains 7% methyl alcohol to prevent polymerization.
Formalin
Total evacuation (absence) of tissue.
Fourth Degree Burn
The vertical restraining fold of mucous membrane on the midline of the inside of each lip connecting the lip with the gum.
Frenulum
An abscess or pyogenic infection of a sweat gland or hair follicle.
Furuncle aka Boil
A process in which a gaseous agent is used to destroy rodents or insets, which act as disease carriers.
Fumigation
Chemical agents capable of destroying, and/or inhibiting the growth of saprophytic or pathogenic fungi, including molds.
Fungicides
Colorless, strong-smelling gas that when used in solution is a powerful preservative and disinfectant, a potential occupational carcinogen.
Formaldehyde aka HCHO aka CH2O
