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
Rigor Mortis, Postmortem Stain, Postmortem Caloricity, Shifts in pH, Decomposition
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Postmortem Physical Changes
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
1.) Carbohydrates
2.) Soft Proteins
3.) Fats
4.)Hard Proteins
5.) Bones
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Stages of Somatic Death
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
Color, odor, skin slip, gases, and purge
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Crepitation
