Vocab (5 of 6) Flashcards
(179 cards)
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1665-1717) An influential person in medical embalming who is known as the “Father of Embalming.” [Dutch]
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RUYSCH, FREDERICK
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Preparation room equipment applied to the neck creating external pressure to reduce swelling of the neck
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RUBBER WATER COLLAR
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Postmortem stiffening of the body muscles by natural body processes
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RIGOR MORTIS aka CADAVERIC RIGIDITY
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The right side of the heart seen as the center of drainage; used as a site of drainage via instruments from the right internal jugular vein
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RIGHT ATRIUM
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A general purpose embalming instrument which is primarily used to spread incisions and to afford more working room. It can also be used as an aid in eyecap insertion
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RETRACTOR
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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
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RETINA
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Method of injection wherein both common carotid arteries are raised.
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RESTRICTED CERVICAL INJECTION
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Supplemental fluid, used with the regular arterial solution whose purpose is to retain body moisture and retard dehydration
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RESTORATIVE FLUID aka HUMECTANT
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Treatment of the deceased in the attempt to recreate natural form and color
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RESTORATION
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An amorphous, nonvolatile solid or soft side substance, a natural exudation from plants any of a class of solid or soft organic compounds of natural or synthetic origin.
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RESINOUS SUBSTANCE
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To lay at rest
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REPOSE
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Substance that easily loses electrons and there-by causes other substances to be reduced; formaldehyde is a strong reducing agent
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REDUCING AGENT
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Repeated aspiration of a cavity
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REASPIRATION
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A mark of desiccation
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RAZOR BURN aka RAZOR ABRASION
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Speed at which solution is injected; measured in ounces per minute
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RATE OF FLOW
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A chemical element that is similar in chemical properties to another element, but differs in atomic weight and electric charge and emits an atom that disintegrates by emission of electromagnetic radiation
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RADIONUCLIDE
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A chemical element that is similar in chemical properties to another element, but differs in atomic weight and electric charge and emits radiation
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RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPE
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The supervisor, in an institution licensed to use radionuclides, that has the responsibility to establish procedures and make recommendations in the use of all radioactive matter.
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RADIATION PROTECTION OFFICER
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Decomposition of proteins by the action of enzymes from anaerobic bacteria
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PUTREFACTION
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Small elevation of the skin with an inflamed base, containing pus
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PUSTULE
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Characteristic pus-filled structure of a disease, such as smallpox, syphilis, and acne.
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PUSTULAR LESION
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Liquid product of inflammation containing various proteins and leukocytes
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PUS
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a suture made around the circumference of a circular opening or puncture to close it or to hold the margins in position
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PURSE STRING SUTURE
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Postmortem evacuation of any substance from an extemal orifice of the body as a result of pressure
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PURGE
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a hole or wound resulting from piercing
PUNCTURE
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The fibrocartilage that joins the two pubic bones in the median plane
PUBIC SYMPHYSIS
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Any one of a group of nitrogenous organic compounds formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria on proteins; indole, skatole, cadaverine, and putrescine
PTOMAINE
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a part that is prominent beyond a surface, like a knob
PROTUBERANCE
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the state or condition of being thrust forward or projecting
PROTRUSION
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Decomposition of proteins
PROTEOLYSIS
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Organic compound found in plants and animals; can be broken down into amino acids.
PROTEIN
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Tending to ward off disease; preventative
PROPHYLACTIC
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Projection of the jaw or jaws that may cause problems with mouth closure alignment of the teeth.
PROGNATHISM
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The recovery of organs or tissues from a cadaver for transplantation purposes.
PROCUREMENT
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As related to decomposition the conversion of fatty tissues of the body into a soapy waxy substance called adipocere or grave wax.
PROCESS OF SOAP FORMATION (SAPONIFICATION)
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small proteinaceous infectious agents (particles) which almost certainly do not have a nucleic acid genome and therefore resist inactivation by procedures that modify nucleic acids Prion diseases are often called spongiform encephalopathies because of the post mortem appearance of the brain with large vacuoles in the cortex and cerebellum
PRION
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The person who has the legal right/custody of the body and can choose whatever type of final disposition
PRIMARY RIGHT OF DISPOSITION aka PRD
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Artery or arteries initially selected for use in the embalming procedure.
PRIMARY INJECTION SITE
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A period immediately following death and before rigor mortis occurs, where the muscles of the body are limp and flaccid
PRIMARY FLACCIDITY
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Vein or veins initially selected for use in the embalming procedure.
PRIMARY DRAINAGE SITE
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Disinfection carried out prior to the embalming process
PRIMARY DISINFECTION
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The dilution attained as the embalming solution is mixed in the embalming machine.
PRIMARY DILUTION
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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 motorized injector used to create positive pressure as required in vascular embalming.
PRESSURE EMBALMING MACHINE
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The pressure indicated by the injector gauge needle when the injector motor is running and the arterial tubing is clamped off
POTENTIAL PRESSURE
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Pressure developed as the flow of embalming solution is established and the elastic arterial walls expand and then contract, resulting in filling of the capillary beds and development of pressure filtration
INTRAVASCULAR PRESSURE
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The amount of pressure produced by an injection device to overcome initial resistance within (intravascular) or on (extravascular) the vascular system (arterial or venous).
INJECTION PRESSURE
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The difference between potential and actual pressure
DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE
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The pressure exerted by the blood on the vessel walls measured in millimeters of mercury.
BLOOD PRESSURE
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That pressure which is indicated by the injector gauge needle when the arterial tube is open and the arterial solution is flowing into the body
ACTUAL PRESSURE
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The action of a force against an opposing force (a force applied or acting against resistance)
PRESSURE
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Chemical in powder form; typically used for surface embalming of the remains.
PRESERVATIVE POWDER
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Amount of preservative (formaldehyde) required to effectively preserve remains depends on the condition of the tissues as determined in the embalming analysis.
PRESERVATIVE DEMAND aka FORMALDEHYDE DEMAND
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Chemicals which inactivate saprophytic bacteria, render unsuitable for nutrition the media upon decompositionwhich 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 aka FIXERS
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(See Temporary Preservation) The science of treating the body chemically so as to temporarily inhibit decomposition
PRESERVATION
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That area or facility wherein embalming, dressing, cosmetizing, or other body preparation are effected
PREPARATION ROOM
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Fluid injected primarily to prepare the vascular system and body tissues for the injection of the preservative vascular (arterial) solution. This solution is injected before the preservative vascular solution is injected
PREINJECTION FLUID
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The injection of a specialized chemical prior to the injection of a routine arterial chemical.
PREINJECTION
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A substance bringing about precipitation The oxilates formerly used in water conditioning chemicals are now illegal because of the poisonous nature to the embalmer
PRECIPITANT
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Embalming equipment used to inject a substance into the mouth, giving the deceased a more life-like appearance by filling out the mouth
POZE INJECTOR
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Those sealing compounds which are used within vascular incisions, wounds, ulcerations, or other moist areas of the body
POWDERS
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The pressure indicated by the injector gauge needle when the injector motor is running and the arterial tubing is clamped off
POTENTIAL PRESSURE
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Degree of acidity or alkalinity The scale ranges from 0 to 14, 0 being completely acid, 14 completely basic, and 7 neutral blood has a ph of 7.35-7.45
POTENTIAL OF HYDROGEN aka pH
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Pure or drinkable water. Non-potable is contaminated or undrinkable water
POTABLE WATER
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Extravascular color change that occurs when heme, released by hemolysis of red blood cells, seeps through the vessel walls and into the body tissues
POSTMORTEM STAIN aka LAKING
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A change in the form or state of matter without any change in chemical composition.
POSTMORTEM PHYSICAL CHANGES
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That period of time between death and embalming. The sooner embalming takes place the better results.
POSTMORTEM INTERVAL
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Change in the body's chemical composition that occurs after death (e.g., decomposition, change in body pH, rigor mortis, postmortem stain, postmortem caloricity).
POSTMORTEM CHEMICAL CHANGES
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The rise in temperature after death due to continued cellular metabolism.
POSTMORTEM CALORICITY
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The changing of the blood from a liquid to a semi-solid or from a semi-solid to a solid.
POSTMORTEM BLOOD COAGULATION
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An embalming instru¬ment for aspirating liquid materials from the trunk cavity of autopsied cases
POST MORTEM ASPIRATOR aka AUTOPSY ASPIRATOR
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Period that begins after somatic death
POSTMORTEM
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Established by drawing a line along the fold of skin which envelops the lateral border of the latissimus dorsi muscle
POSTERIOR BOUNDARY
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Toward the back
POSTERIOR
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That time period after the arterial injection
POSTEMBALMING
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Preparation room equipment for properly positioning bodies prior to, during, and after vascular embalming
POSITIONING DEVICES
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concerning an entrance to an organ, especially that through which the blood is carried to the liver
PORTAL
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any substance that imperils health or life when absorbed into the body
POISON
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general term used to denote any prolonged inhalation of mineral dust
PNEUMOCONIOSIS
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Acute infection or inflammation of the alveoli. The alveolar sacs fill up with fluid and dead white blood cells. Causes include bacteria, fungi, and viruses
PNEUMONIA
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Preparation room equipment used to reduce neck swelling by variable air pressure.
PNEUMATIC COLLAR
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Condition in which interstitial spaces contain such excessive amounts of fluid that the skin remains depressed after palpation
PITTING EDEMA
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Postdeath alteration in the body that comprises a physical and a chemical change, for example, rigor mortis, wherein there is a change in pH of the tissues and a stiffening of the muscles
PHYSICOCHEMICAL POSTMORTEM CHANGE
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Changes which are not primarily responsible for alterations in the chemical composition and properties of the body substances
PHYSICAL POSTMORTEM CHANGES
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a change in the form or state of matter without any change in chemical composition.
PHYSICAL CHANGE
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Extreme sensitivity to light
PHOTOPHOBIA
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the vertical groove located medially on the superior lip; a natural facial marking
PHILTRUM
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an antiseptic/disinfectant employed to dry moist tissues and to bleach See carbolic acid.
PHENOL
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Drugs or medicines
PHARMACEUTICAL AGENTS
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Antemortem, pinpoint, extravascular blood discoloration visible as purplish hemorrhages of the skin
PETECHIA
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Agents destructive to adult forms of insect life
PESTICIDE/INSECTICIDE
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Those items of protection worn to minimize exposure to hazards; those items worn by the embalmer to avoid contact with blood and other body fluids
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT aka PPE
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The maximum legal limits established by osha for regulated substances these are based on employee exposure that are time-weighted over an eight-hour work shift. When these limits are exceeded, employers must take proper steps to reduce employee exposure For formaldehyde, the PEL is .75 ppm
PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LIMIT aka PEL
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Inflammation of the peritoneum, the membranous coat lining the abdominal cavity and investing the viscera
PERITONITIS
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Weakness in the extremities due to damage or degeneration of the peripheral nerves.
PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY
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To force a fluid through (an organ or tissue), especially by way of the blood vessels; injection during vascular (arterial) embalming
PERFUSION
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Chemicals found in embalming arterial formulations having the capability of displacing an unpleasant odor or of altering an unpleasant odor so that it is converted to a more pleasant one. Historically called reodorants
PERFUMING AGENTS aka MASKING AGENTS
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Effected through unbroken skin
PERCUTANEOUS
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Substance able to destroy lice
PEDICULICIDE
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Antemortem discoloration that occurs during the course of certain diseases; gangrene and jaundice
PATHOLOGICAL DISCOLORATION
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Diseased; due to a disease
PATHOLOGICAL CONDITION
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Capable of producing disease
PATHOGENIC
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Method by which solutes and/or solvents cross through a membrane with no energy provided by the cells of the membrane. In embalming, examples include pressure filtration, dialysis, diffusion, and osmosis
PASSIVE TRANSPORT SYSTEM
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occurs when venous drainage from an area is decreased
PASSIVE CAPILLARY CONGESTION
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In contaminated air, the parts of vapor or gas (formaldehyde) per million parts of air by volume; in solution the parts of chemical per million parts of solution
PARTS PER MILLION aka PPM
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Piercing mucous membranes or the skin barrier through such events as needlesticks, human bites, cuts and abrasions
PARENTERAL
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Substances which temporarily or permanently inhibits and enzyme’s action.
PARALYZER OR INACTIVATOR
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Incision on the surface of the skin to raise the common carotid arteries, it is made along the posterior border of the inferior one-third of the stemocleidomastoid muscle
PARALLEL INCISION
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A plastic garment which fits tightly around the waist and thighs of the deceased to guard against leakage and to avoid stains and odors
PANTS
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To examine by touch
PALPATE
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Embalming instrument used in filling the external orifices of the body
PACKING FORCEPS
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Liquids or gels, usually available in spray or pack form, which are generally used in cases of skin slip, ulcerations and other surface involvements.
PACK APPLICATION/SURFACE APPLICATION
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Method of eye closure in which the upper lid is placed on top of the lower lid
OVERLAP
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Preservation of the body’s surface (to dry and harden lesions), of excisions and cavities, or of areas that received inadequate arterial preservative Materials used in osmotic embalming include surface packs, embalming powders, and autopsy gels.
OSMOTIC EMBALMING aka SURFACE EMBALMING
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The passage of solvent from a solution of lesser to one of greater solute concentration when the two solutions are separated by a semipermeable membrane aka hindered diffusion
OSMOSIS
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Entrance or outlet of any body cavity; an opening
ORIFICE
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The mouth and the vestibule, or the opening to the throat
ORAL CAVITY
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The most favorable condition for functioning
OPTIMUM
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Other Possibly Infectious Material (or matter)
OPIM
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An optical instrument with an accompanying light that makes it possible to examine the retina and to explore for blood circulation
OPHTHALMOSCOPE
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Any and all techniques to treat a problem area, excision, incision, wicking.
OPERATIVE CORRECTIONS
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A cosmetic medium able to cover or hide skin discolorations
OPAQUE COSMETIC
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Injection and drainage from one location
ONE POINT INJECTION
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A Governmental Agency with the responsibility for regulation and enforcement agency may supercede the u.shealth matters for most united states employees; an individual state osha of safety and department of labor osha regulations.
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION / OSHA
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Reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral, contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that may result from the performance of a worker's duties
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE
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slanting or inclined, neither perpendicular nor horizontal
OBLIQUE
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Abnormal amount of fat on the body
OBESE
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An involuntary, rapid movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side
NYSTAGMUS
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National Toxicology Program
NTP
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Infection acquired in a hospital
NOSOCOMIAL
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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 aka PASSIVE DYE
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Metabolic by-products that contain nitrogen, such as urea and uric acid These compounds have a high affinity for formaldehyde and tend to neutralize embalming chemicals.
NITROGENOUS WASTE
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Inflammation of the kidneys
NEPHRITIS
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A material capable of causing an abnormal growth of tissue
NEOPLASTIC AGENT
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The abnormal, excessive and uncontrolled multiplication of cells with the formation of a mass or new growth of tissue
NEOPLASM aka TUMOR
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A mechanical device used to impel specially designed metal pins into bone.
NEEDLE INJECTOR
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Preparation room equipment used to hold suturing needles and keep them in good condition; an instrument used to hold a suturing needle while suturing
NEEDLE HOLDER
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Pathological death of a tissue still a part of the living organism
NECROSIS
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Antemortem, physiological death of the cells of the body followed by their replacement most cells in the body are completely replaced every 14 years
NECROBIOSIS
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Tests and certifies respiratory protective devices and air sampling detector tubes, recommends occupational exposure limits for various substances, and assists OSHA inoccupational safety and health investigations and research.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH NIOSH
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Embalming instrument used to aspirate the throat by means of the nostrils.
NASAL TUBE ASPIRATOR
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the anterior fold of the cheek which descends laterally along the upper lip from the wing of the nose; a natural facial marking
NASOLABIAL FOLD
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Space between the roof of the mouth and the floor of the cranial cavity
NASAL CAVITY
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A central nervous system depressant which can cause symptoms including headache, lightheadedness, dizziness, drowsiness, fatigue. In high concentrations, stupor and unconsciousness can occur
NARCOTIC
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Unconsciousness produced by a drug, usually narcotics, and certain toxic chemicals.
NARCOSIS
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the nostrils
NARES
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Disfigured by a loss of a natural part because of the application of force
MUTILATED
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A material which can cause inheritable genetic changes in offspring
MUTAGEN
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Method of mouth closure in which a suture is passed through the septum of the nose and through the mentalis muscle of the chin
MUSCULATURE SUTURE
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The complete or extreme dehydration of a dead human body
MUMMIFICATION
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Vascular injection from two or more arteries
MULTIPOINT INJECTION (MULTIPLE-SITE)
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A device used in the mouth to shape the contour of the lips
MOUTH FORMER
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A paste to fix or fill
MORTUARY PUTTY
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In a dying state; in the agonal period
MORIBUND
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Those agents which will prohibit the growth of mold
MOLD PREVENTATIVE
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Necrotic tissue that is wet as a result of inadequate venous drainage; may be accompanied by bacterial infection
MOIST (WET) GANGRENE
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Chemicals added to the embalming solution to deal with varying demands predicated upon the embalming fluid to be used.type of embalming, and the environment
MODIFYING AGENTS
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Composition of two or more substances that are not chemically bound to each other.
MIXTURE
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The smallest dose of a poison (or radiation) on record that produces death.
MINIMUM LETHAL DOSE (MLD)
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That amount of radioactive material in which 37 million disintergrate each second.
MILLICURIE / MC ATOMS
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A vertical line drawn from the center of the medial border of the base of the axillary space.
MID-AXILLARY LINE
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A minute one celled form of life not distinguishable as to vegetable or animal nature.
MICROBE (MICROORGANISM)
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Pathogenic bacterial Staphylococcus aureus, resis¬tant to most drugs. A causative agent of bedsores, surgical wound infections, skin and nose infections, and pneumonia.
METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS aka MRSA
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An embalming instrument which permits embalming fluid to flow in two different directions simultaneously
METAL Y
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An embalming instrument used to stop the flow of fluids through tubing
METAL CUT-OFF/METAL CLAMP HOSE CLAMP
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Inflammation of the meninges
MENINGITIS
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The brown to black-brown pigment in the epidermis and hair which occurs in person of all race.
MELANIN
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Methyl ethyl ketone
MEK
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An official elected or appointed to investigate suspicious or unnatural death.
MEDICAL EXAMINER
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Toward the midline
MEDIAL
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An electrical appliance which forces air into a machine resulting in pressure.
MECHANICAL APPARATUS (MECHANICAL AIR PRESSURE MACHINE)
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a paired bone with several processes that form the skeletal base of most of the superior face, roof of the mouth, sides of the nasal cavity, and floor of the orbit
MAXILLA
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This must accompany a hazardous product; a requirement of the Department of Labor and OSHA under the hazard communication standard
MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET / MSDS
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Manipulation of tissue in the course of preparation of the body. Always move towards the heart
MASSAGE
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Method of mouth closure in which a suture is passed through the Septum of the nose and around the mandible
MANDIBULAR SUTURE
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the horseshoe-shaped bone forming the inferior jaw
MANDIBLE
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(1628-1694) An influential person in medical embalming who was the first to note capillary circulation and was later known as the “Father of Microscopic Anatomy.” “Father of Histology.” [Italian]
MALPIGHI, MARCELLO
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An insect larva; especially flies
MAGGOT
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In its broadest sense, refers to the moistening, and softening, of any tissue decomposing in a liquid medium
MACERATION
