Test 3 Vocab and Important Def. Flashcards
(119 cards)
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What are procedures that isolate or remove the bloodborne pathogen hazard from the workplace such as sharps disposal container or self-sheathing needles
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Engineering controls
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What is the non-protein portion of hemoglobin, the red pigment of the hemoglobin
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Heme
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What is the abnormal accumulation of fluids in the tissues or body cavities called?
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Edema / dropsy
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What kind of chemicals increase the ability of embalmed tissue to retain moisture?
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Humectants
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What is a condition in which the muscles become rigidly fixed? The body becomes pale and cold, pulse and respiration become more feeble
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Death Trance
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What is the antemortem or postmortem settling of blood and other fluids to dependent portions of the body?
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Hypostasis
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What is postmortem, intravascular, red-blue discoloration resulting from hypostasis of blood that can usually be cleared via arterial injection and drainage?
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Livor Mortis / Cadaveric Lividity / Postmortem Lividity
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What is a microbe that prefers an environment devoid of oxygen but has adapted so that it can live and grow in the presence of oxygen?
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Facultative Aerobe
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Forcing a fluid through (an organ or tissue), especially by way of the blood vessels; injection during vascular (arterial) embalming is called what?
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Perfusion
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The injection of a specialized chemical in conjunction with the routine arterial chamical is called what?
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Coinjection (chemicals/fluids)
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Who is the most influential person in medical embalming who is known as the Father of Embalming?
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Frederick Ruysch
1638-1731
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What is a solution having lesser concentration of dissolved solute called compared to a solution with greater concentration?
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Hypotonic solution
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What is the movement of arterial solution from the point of injection through the bloodvascular system called?
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Fluid Distribution
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What is a poisonous substance of plant, animal, bacterial, or fungal origin called?
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Toxin
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What is the decomposition of proteins by enzymes of aerobic bacteria called?
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Decay (Bacterial)
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What is a liquid holding another substance in solution called?
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Solvent
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What is a a solution having a greater solution of concentration of dissolved solute than the solution to which it is compared with called?
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Hypertonic Solution
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What is a specific antibody acting destructively upon cells and tissues called?
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Lysin
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What is an agonal or postmortem redistribution of host microflora on a hostwide basis called?
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Translocation
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What is the process of taking in, as in a colored object which absorbs certain rays of light and reflects other rays giving the object it recognizable color called?
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Absoption
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What is the process called the promotes and establishes conditions which minimize or eliminate biohazards?
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Sanitation
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A condition in which interstitial spaces contain such excessive amount of fluid that the skin remains depressed after palpation is known as what?
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Pitting Edema
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Chemicals which kill or render incapable of reproducing disease causing microorganisms are called what?
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Germicides
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What is the white portion of the eye called?
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Sclera
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What is the mucous membrane that lines the eyelid and cover the white portion of the eye called?
Conjunctive
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What is the process of soap formation; as related to decomposition. the conversion of fatty tissues of the body into a soapy waxy substance called adipocere or grave wax called?
Saponification
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What is the absoption of the fluid portion of the body by the tissues after death (resulting in postmortem edema) called?
Imbibition
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What is the separation of compounds into simpler substances by the action of microbial or autolytic enzymes called?
Decomposition
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What is any substance that imperils health or life when absorbed into the body called?
Poison
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Groups of chemicals used in addition to vascular and cavity embalming fluids, includes but it not limited to hardening compounds, preservative powders, sealing agents, mold preventatives, and pack application agents are called what?
Accessory Chemicals
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The extravascular color change that occurs when heme, released by hemolysis of red blood cells, seeps through the vessel walls into the body tissues is called what?
Postmortem Stain
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Embalming instrument used to hypodermically inject areas of the body with embalming chemicals is known as what?
Hypovalve Trocar / Parietal Needle
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The extravascular movement of preservative fluid by gravitational force to the dependent areas of the body is called what?
Gravity Filtration
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The legal limits established by OSHA to which workers can be exposed continuosly for a short period of time without damage or injury exposures at the STEL should not be for more than 15 minutes and not repeated more than 4 times per work day is known as what?
STEL
Short Term
Exposure Limit
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The transparent part of the tunic of the eyeball that covers the iris and pupil and admits light into the interior is called what?
Cornea
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A substance which enzymes act against is what?
Substrate
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The act or instance of forcing a fluid into the vascular system or directly into tissues is called what?
Injection
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Inactivation or removal of microbial toxins, as well as of living microbial pathogens themselves is what?
Decontamination
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An organelle that exists within a cell, but separate from the cell; contains hydrolytic enzymes that break down proteins and certain carbohydrates is what?
Lysosome
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A sharply pointed surgical instrument used in cavity embalming to aspirate the cavities and inject cavity fluid is called what? What can it also be used for?
Trocar
*Can also be used for supplemental hypodermic embalming
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An official of a local community who holds inquests concerning sudden, violent, or unexplained deaths is a?
Coroner
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Injection that results in the distribution of embalming fluid primarily to the body surface, with little preservation and disinfection of deeper tissues is known as what?
Shell Embalming
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The injection of a specialized chemical prior to the injection of a routine arterial chemical is called what?
Preinjection
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Drug-induced edema wherein the excess fluid is located within the cell. Upon palpation where is no noticeable depression. This is known as what?
Solid Edema
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In it's broadest sense, refers to the moistening, and softening, of any tissue decomposing in a liquid medium, is called what?
Maceration
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Fluid injected for purposes other than preservation and disinfection are what?
Supplemental fluids
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Soft whitish crumbly or greasy material that forms upon the postmortem hydrolysis and hydrogenation of body fats is called what?
Adipocere / Grave Wax
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Relaxation phase of the heart action, or beat?
Diastole
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An official elected or appointed to investigate suspicious death or unnatural death?
Medical Examiner
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Liquid containing dissolved substance?
Solution
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Loss of moisture from body tissue which may occur antemortem or postmortem
Dehydration
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Chemicals which inactivate saprophytic bacteria, render unsuitable for nutrition the media upon decomposition which such bacteria thrive, and which will arrest by altering enzymes and lysins of the body as well as converting the decomposable tissue to a form less susceptible to decomposition?
Preservative
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Homogeneous mixture of two or more substances able to pass through a semi-permeable membrane. The size of the particle is less than one nanometer (1 nm) ?
True Solution
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Embalming fluid that contains dyes and coloring agents intended to restore a more natural skin tone through the embalming process?
Cosmetic Fluid
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The direct contact of body tissues with embalming chemicals?
Surface Embalming
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Positive intravascular pressure causing passage of embalming solution through the capillary causing passage of embalming fluid from an intravascular to an wall to diffuse with the interstitial fluids; extravascular position?
Pressure Filtration
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A mechanical device used to impel specially designed metal pins into bone?
Needle Injector
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The property of certain cells of becoming fluid when shaken and then becoming solid again?
Thixotropy
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The dilution attained as the embalming solution is mixed in the embalming machine?
Primary Dilution
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An organic compound containing nitrogen; any compounds formed from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by organic radicals?
Amine
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Drawing together, or a contraction, of gels which results in the giving off of water?
Syneresis
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An evaluation of exposures that are time-weighted over an established period. It allows the exposure levels to be averaged generally over and 9-hour time period?
TWA
Time Weighted Average
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A type of arterial fluid which contains inactive dyes that will not impart a color change upon the body tissues of the deceased?
Non-Cosmetic Fluid /
| Passive Dyes
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An agent used to remove chemical constituents from municipal water supplies that could interfere with drainage and preservation?
Water Conditioner
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A luminous appearance like a candle flame?
Death Candle
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Contraction phase of the heart action, or beat?
Systole
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The red respiratory portion of the red blood cells; iron containing pigment of red blood cells functioning to carry oxygen to the cells?
Hemoglobin
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The passage of solvent from a solution of lesser to one of greater solute concentration when the two solution are separated by a semi-permeable membrane?
Osmosis / Hindered Diffusion
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Organic compound found in plants and animals; can be broken down into amino acids?
Protein
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Building blocks of which proteins are constructed, and the end products of protein digestion or hydrolysis?
Amino Acid
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Resins combined with oil; a fragrant, resinous. oily exudate from various trees and plants?
Balsamic Substance
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Injection of embalming chemicals directly into the tissues through the use of a syringe and needle, or trocar?
Hypodermic Embalming
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Rendered thoroughly dry, exhausted of moisture?
Dessication
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A general term; the solidification of a solution into a gelatinous mass?
Tissue Coagulation
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A kind of ignis fatuus (glow) supposed to forebode death?
Death Fire
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A preparation aid used in mouth closer. It it inserted into a needle injector and forced into the mandible and maxilla?
Injector Needle
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Decomposition of proteins by the action of enzymes from anaerobic bacteria?
Putrefaction
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An organism that prefers an oxygen environment but is capable of living and growing in it's absence?
Facultative Anaerobe
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Controls that reduce the likelihood of exposure by altering the manner in which a task is performed; prohibiting recapping of needles, and not allowing blood splatter or aerosolization of blood while draining during the embalming process?
Work Practice Controls
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Severe generalized edema?
Anasarca
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Between the cells of a structure?
Intercellular
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An amorphous, nonvolatile solid or soft side substance, a natural exudation form plants and of a class of solid or soft organic compounds of natural or synthetic origin?
Resinous Substance
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Separation of substances in solution by the difference in their rate of diffusion through a semipermeable membrane?
Dialysis / Selective Diffusion
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Inner lining of the eye that receives the images formed by the lens and transmits those images to the brain through the optic nerve
Retina
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Noise made by a moribund person caused by air passing through a residue of mucous in the trachea and posterior oral cavity?
Death Rattle
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Withing a cell or cells?
Intracellular
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The destruction and or inhibition of most pathogenic organisms and their product in or on the body
Disinfection
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Removal of particles (liquid or solid) from a solution, as it passes through a membrane or other partial barrier?
Filtration
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An influential person in medical embalming who is regarded as the father of modern embalming?
Dr. Thomas Homes
1817-1899
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Ingredient of embalming fluids that retards the natural postmortem tendency of blood to become more viscous or prevents adverse reactions between blood and other embalming chemicals?
Anticoagulant Fluids
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Destruction of red blood cells that liberates hemoglobin?
Hemolysis
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The substance that is dissolved in a solution?
Solute
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The movement of the arterial solution through the capillaries into the interstitial spaces, from an intravascular to extravascular position?
Fluid Diffusion
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The maximum legal limits established by OSHA for regulated substances, these are based on employee exposures that are time weighted over an eight-hour work shift
PEL
Permissible Exposure Limites
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The semi-convulsive twitches which often occur before death?
Death Struggle
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Conditions characterized by excessive concentrations of bilirubin in the skin and tissues and deposition of excessive bile pigment in the skin, cornea, body fluids, and mucous membranes with the resulting yellow appearance of the patient?
Jaundice / Icterus
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Postmortem stiffening of the body muscles by natural body processes?
Rigor Mortis / Cadaveric Rigidity
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The immediate stiffening of the muscles of a dead human body; a prolongation of the last violent contraction of the muscles into the rigidity of death?
Instantaneous Rigor Mortis / Cadaveric Spasm
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A hopefully pleasant illusion which banish the traces of death and grief and present the deceased in an attitude of normal restful sleep?
Memory Picture
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A deliberate deception for unfair or unlawful gain?
Fraud
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The process in which gaseous agents are used to destroy rodents and insects?
Fumigation
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Agents which are destructive to insect larvae?
Larvacide
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A chemical agent capable of destroying saprophytic or pathogenic fungi such as mold?
Fungicide
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A substance able to destroy lice?
Pediculicide
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An agent destructive to adult forms of insect life?
Pesticide / Insecticide
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The antemortem development of a bed sore into necrotic tissue which may become fatal?
Decubitus Ulcers
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The first dean of John's Hopkins School of Medicine, accredited for discovering clostridium perfringen?
Dr. Henry William Welch
1850-1934
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The metabolic entity of growth, reproduction and locomotion?
Life
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The irreversible, total cessation of metabolic activity?
Death
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Waterless embalming, hot water embalming, or embalming with 36+ index solution will cause what?
Instant Tissue Fixation
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Marked by a decrease in recorded body temperature; noted in senile patients (antemortem)?
Agonal Algor
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Weakness of an organ?
Senility / Senile
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Marked by an increase of recorded body temperature (antemortem)?
Agonal Fever
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Settling of blood to dependent parts of the body JUST PRIOR TO DEATH?
Agonal Hypostasis
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Bacterial infiltration and growth from the intestinal tract to the vascular system and skeletal system causing capillary permeability changes?
Bacterial Translocation
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A crackling sensation produces when gases trapped in tissues are palpated?
Crepitation
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Any variety of substances both natural and synthetic that inhibit the growth of or destroy microorganisms?
Antibiotics
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A nerve or drug which dilates the blood vessels actually causing complete relaxation of the blood vessels?
Vasodilator
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The process of resolving grief?
Grief Work
