Embalming Comprehensive Exam Flashcards
The physical evacuation of various foreign materials from any body orifice, due to a variety of pressures, is commonly referred to as:
Purge
Which of the following is an example of antemortem extravascular blood discoloration:
- Livor mortis
- Cyanosis
- Capillary congestion
- Hematoma
- Hypostasis
Hematoma
Inactive dyes are used in arterial solutions to:
Impart color to the solution
That method of injection and drainage in which an amount of arterial fluid is injected and then drainage allowed to flow for a period of time, each one separately, is which method:
Alternate
More water can be removed from tissue with:
Hypertonic solutions
A device that is inserted into the artery for introducing arterial fluid is called:
Cannula
An extrinsic variable factor in embalming is:
A time lapse between death and embalming
Massage cream is placed on the inside of the eyelid to hold them in place and to:
Prevent dehydration
This instrument could be used in place of a drain tube:
Spring forceps
The movement of embalming solutions from the point of injection throughout the arterial, capillary and venous portions of the blood vascular system is known as:
Fluid distribution
That method of injection and drainage in which injection is continued and drainage is taken at intervals is which method:
Intermittent
A method of generating pressure for the injection of arterial fluid into a dead human body is the use of:
Mechanical pump
An embalming solution may be handicapped if it is used during the peak of rigor mortis because of which reason:
The rigidity of the muscles do not allow the entrance of the solution
When injecting down, the arterial solution moves from the tibial artery to the:
Dorsalis pedis artery
Postmortem staining is an extravascular change in the color of tissue due to:
Hemolysis
The most positive sign of death is:
Generalized decomposition
The line of closure of the eye is on the:
Lower one-third of the eye socket
When suturing the mouth closed, the superior anchoring is the:
Septum of the nose
The muscular suture is also known as:
Frenulum - septal suture
The attempted destruction of most autolytic and bacterial enzymes present in the body, and which have protein, carbohydrate and lipid splitting abilides, is considered to be the action of, or purpose of:
Disinfection
What type of co-injection chemical is recommended for a dehydrated body?
Humectant
The amount of formaldehyde gas, measured in grams, dissolved in 100 ml, of water is called:
Index
How many ounces of 32 index fluid are needed to make 2 gallons of dilute solution having an index of 2%:
16
That process of decomposition of protein due to the specific action of an anaerobic bacteria is referred to as:
Putrefaction
Which of the following would have to be considered in pre-embalming analysis:
- Age
- Cause of death
- Sex
- All of the above
- None of the above
All of the above
If the procedure calls for a liquid sealer in the back of the eye socket, the embalmer is dealing with a:
Enucleated eye
The action of post-mortem stiffening of all voluntary muscles of the body is referred to specifically as:
Rigor mortis
Which of the following is an important factor to be considered in a case analysis:
- Sex
- Tissue moisture
- Age
- All of the above
- None of the above
All of the above
That classification of embalming which involves submersion of the total body into a specially formulated solution is referred to as:
Absorption embalming
When raising the internal jugular vein, the embalmer would expect the common carotid artery to be:
- Medial
* Deep
Cherry-red staining is associated with:
Carbon monoxide poisoning
A condition which results from the increase of fluid loss:
Dehydration
Father of embalming
Ruysch
Wrote the embalming text “History of Embalming”
Gannal
Discovered capillary circulation
Malpighi
Discovered formaldehyde
Butlerov
Father of American embalming
Holmes
The three basic media involved with Casper’s Law are under the pressure of earth, water, and:
Air
The procedure of disinfection which is performed prior to the embalming process is referred to as:
Primary disinfection
Self-destruction of cells
Autolysis
Decomposition of proteins
Proteolysis
Sugar decomposition
Saccharolysis
Decomposition of proteins by enzymes of anaerobic bacteria
Putrefaction
Decomposition of proteins by enzymes of aerobic bacteria
Decay
That mode of death which originates with the failure of one of the vital organs of the human is referred to as:
Somatic death
What form of somatic death involves death beginning at the brain, and is also referred to as an insensibility which terminates in death:
Coma
The process of treating the body chemically so as to temporarily inhibit decomposition is:
Preservation
The primary purpose of embalming is:
Sanitation
What are methods of stimulating drainage:
- Instruments
- Massage
- Pressure
Purge that is liquid, has a foul odor, and resembles coffee grounds is:
Stomach purge
Any surface, prominence, structure, or marking used to locate a deeper structure is a(n):
Anatomical guide
When preparing the primary dilution for an edematous case, the solution which is prepared should be:
More astringent than usual
When considering the various color changes which are involved with decomposition, the initial color which is generally seen is:
Yellow-green
Which artery must be clamped off while injecting the cranially autopsied head via the common carotid artery:
Internal carotid artery
Decrease in recorded body temperature
Algonal algor
Coagulation
Congealing
Escape of blood serum from an intravascular to an extravascular location
Agonal edema
Increase in recorded body temperature
Agonal fever
Those changes occurring in the interval prior to somatic death
Antemortem
Speaking in general terms, the earliest visible external sign of the presence of decomposition is a green discoloration over which quadrant of the abdomen:
Lower right
