Vocabulary (M's) Flashcards
In its broadest sense, refers to the moistening, and softening, of any tissue decomposing in a liquid medium.
Maceration
An insect larva; especially flies.
Maggot
(1628-1694) An influential person in medical embalming who was the first to not capillary circulation. (Italian)
Marcello Malpighi
“Father of Microscopic Anatomy”
“Father of Histology”
The horseshoe-shaped bone forming the inferior jaw.
Mandible
Method of mouth closure in which a suture is passed through the septum of the nose and around the mandible.
Mandibular Suture
Manipulation of tissue in the course of preparation of the body. Always move towards the heart.
Massage
This must accompany a hazardous product; a requirement of the Department of Labor and OSHA unt the Under the hazard communication standard.
Material Safety Data Sheet aka MSDS
A paired bone with several processes that form the skeletal base of most of the superior face, root of the moth, sides of the nasal cavity, and floor of the orbit.
Maxilla
An electrical appliance which forces air into a machine resulting in pressure.
Mechanical Apparatus aka Mechanical Air Pressure Machine
Toward the midline.
Medial
An official elected or appointed to investigated suspicious or unnatural death.
Medical Examiner
Methyl ethyl ketone.
MEK
The brown to black-pigment in the epidermis and hair which occurs in person of all race.
Melanin
Inflammation of the meninges.
Meningitis
An embalming instrument used to stop the flow of fluids through tubing (Hose Clamp).
Metal Cut-Off aka Metal Clamp
An embalming instrument which permits embalming fluid to flow in two different different directions simultaneously.
Metal Y
Pathogenic bacterial Staphylococcous aureus, resistant to most drugs. A causative agent of bedsores, surgical wound infections, skin and nose infections, and pneumonia.
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus aka MRSA
A minute one celled form of life not distinguishable as to vegetable or animal nature.
Microbe aka Microorganism
A vertical line drawn from the center of the medial border of the base of the axillary space.
Mid-Axillary Line
That amount of radioactive material in which 37 million disintegrate each second. DISINTEGRATE EACH SECOND.
Millicurie aka MC Atoms
The smallest does of a poison (or raditation) on record that procedures death.
Minimum Lethal Dose aka MLD
Composition of two or more substances that are not chemically bound to each other.
Mixture
Chemicals added to the embalming solution to deal with varying demands predicated upon the embalming fluid to be used type of embalming, the environment.
Modifying Agents
Necrotic tissue that is wet as a result of inadequate venous drainage; may accompanied by bacterial infection.
Moist (Wet) Gangrene
Those agents which will prohibit the growth of mold.
Mold Preventative
In a dying state; in the agonal period.
Moribund
A paste to fix or fill
Mortuary Putty
A device used in the mouth to shape the contour of the lips.
Mouth Former
Vascular injection from two or more arteries.
Multipoint Injection aka Multiple Site
The complete or extreme dehydration of a dead human body
Mummification
Method of mouth closure in which a suture is passed through the septum of the nose and through the mentalis muscle of the chin.
Musculature Suture
A material which can cause inheritable genetic changes in offspring.
Mutagen
Disfigured by a loss of a natural part because of the application of force.
Mutilated
