Embalming 4 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Necrosis
Pathological death of a tissue still a part of the living organism.
Necrobiosis
Antemortem, physiological death of the cells of the body followed by their replacement.
Agonal Algor
Decrease in body temperature immediately before death.
Agonal Fever
Increase in body temperature immediately before death.
Agonal Hypostasis
Settling of blood and or other fluids to dependent portions of the body.
Agonal Moisture Changes
Translocation
Agonal or postmortem redistribution of host microflora on a host wide basis.
Tissue Gas
Postmortem accumulation of gas in tissues or cavities brought about by an anaerobic gas forming bacillus.
Algor Mortis
Postmortem cooling of the body to the surrounding tempature.
Hypostasis
Setteling of the blood and other body fluids to dependent parts of the body.
Viscosity
Resistance to the flow of a liquid. Thickness of a liquid.
Livor Mortis
Postmortem intravascular red-blue discoloration resulting from hypostasis of blood.
Dehydration
Loss of moisture from body tissue that may occur antemortem or postmortem.
Postmortem Caloricity
Rise in body temperature after death due to continued cellular metabolism.
Postmortem Stain
Extravascular color change that occurs when heme, released by hemolysis of red blood cells, seeps through the vessel walls and into the body tissue.
Rigor Mortis
Postmortem stiffing of the body muscles by natural body processes.
Autolysis
Self-distraction of cells. Decommissions of all tissue by enzymes that form without microbial assistance.
Hydrolysis
Reaction in which water is one of the reaction and compounds are often broken down. In the hydrolysis of proteins, the addition of water accompanied by the action of enzymes results in the breakdown of protein into amino acids.
Proteolysis
Decomposition of proteins.
Putrefaction
Decomposition of proteins by the action of enzymes from anaerobic bacteria.
Decay
Decomposition of proteins by enzymes of aerobic bacteria.
Desquamation
(skin-slip) Sloughing off the of the epidermis, wherein there is a separation of the epidermis form the underlying dermis.