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Chapter 5 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Adipocere/Grave Wax

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  • soft, grayish white to brown, wax like material composed of oleic, politic, and steric (fatty acids).
  • formed by the post-mortem hydrolysis and hydrogenation of body fats
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Agonal Algor

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Agonal Capillary Expansion

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Agonal Dehydration

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Agonal Edema

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Agonal Fever

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Agonal Hypostasis

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Agonal Period

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Anabolism

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Autolysis

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Biological Death

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Cadaveric Spasm

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Catabolism

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Clinical Death

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Contact Pallor

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Death Rattle

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Death Struggle

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Decay

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Desquamation

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Extrinsic Factors

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Fermentation

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Hemolysis

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Imbibition

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Intrinsic Factors

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Moribund

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Postmortem Cellular Death

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Post Mortem Chemical Changes

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Rigor Mortis, Postmortem Stain, Postmortem Caloricity, Shifts in pH, Decomposition

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Postmortem Physical Changes

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Algor Mortis, Hypostasis, Livor Mortis, Dehydration, Increase in blood viscosity, Endogenous invasion of microorganisms

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Primary Flaccidity

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Ptomaine

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Putrefaction

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Secondary Flaccidity

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Sludge

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Somatic Death

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Taphonomy

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Translocation

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Expert Tests of Death

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Inexpert Tests of Death

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Order of decomposition of body compounds

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1.) Carbohydrates
2.) Soft Proteins
3.) Fats
4.)Hard Proteins
5.) Bones

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Stages of Somatic Death

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Clinical Death
Brain Death
Biological Death
Postmortem Cellular Death

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Somatic Death

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Clinical Death

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Brain Death

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Biological Death

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Postmortem Cellular Death

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Signs of Decomposition

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Color, odor, skin slip, gases, and purge

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Crepitation

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