module 4 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Pathological death of a tissue still a part of the living organism.
Necrosis
Antemortem, physiological death of the cells of the body followed by their replacement.
Necrobiosis
Decrease in body temperature immediately before death.
Agonal algor
Increase in body temperature immediately before death
Agonal fever
is the settling of blood into the dependent tissues of the body. It occurs as a result of the slowing of circulation just prior to death.
Agonal hypostasis
edema, in the increase amount of moisture, or fluids in the tissues and body cavity
Dehydration, decrease in the amount of moisture, or fluids, in the tissue or body cavity
Agonal moisture changes
Agonal or postmortem redistribution of host microflora on a hostwide basis.
Translocation
Postmortem accumulation of gas in tissues or cavities brought about by an anaerobic gas forming bacillus.
Tissue gas
Postmortem cooling of the body to the surrounding temperature.
Algor Mortis
Settling of blood and/ or other fluids to dependent portions of the body.
Hypostasis
Resistance to the flow of a liquid. Thickness of a liquid
Viscosity
Postmortem intravascular red-blue discoloration resulting from hypostasis of blood
Livor Mortis
Loss of moisture from body tissue that may occur antemortem or postmortem (antemortem: febrile disease, diarrhea, or emesis; postmortem: injection of embalming solution or through absorption by the air)
Dehydration
Rise in the body temperature after death due to continued cellular metabolism.
Postmortem Caloricity
Extravascular color change that occurs when heme, released by hemolysis of red blood cells, seeps through the vessel walls and into the body tissue.
Postmortem stain
Postmortem stiffening if the body muscles by natural body processes.
Rigor Mortis
Self-destruction of cells. Decomposition of all tissues by enzymes that form without microbial assistance.
Autolysis
Reaction in which water is one of the reactants 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 inro amino acids.
Hydrolysis
Decomposition of proteins.
Proteolysis
Decomposition of proteins by the action of enzymes from anaerobic bacteria.
Putrefaction
Decomposition of proteins by enzymes of anerobic bacteria.
Decay
Sloughing off of the epidermis, wherein there is a separation of the epidermis from the underlying dermis.
Desquamation(skin-slip)
