Vocabulary (T's)

Question 1

A brown to black band of discolored sclera of the eye. Created by the postmortem drying of the sclera by the air.

Answer 1

Tache Noire

Question 2

Minute petechial hemorrhages caused by the rupture of minute vessels as blood settles into the dependent areas of organs and tissues; it is accompanied by livor mortis. A postmortem, extravascular blood discoloration. Most common in asphyxial or slow deaths.

Answer 2

Tardieu Spots

Question 3

Chemicals which will affect adversely certain organs.

Answer 3

Target Organ Effects

Question 4

The science of treating the body chemically so as to temporarily inhibit decomposition.

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Temporary Preservation

Question 5

An agent which can cause non-inheritable mutations in offspring.

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Teratogen

Question 6

Institution of disinfection and decontamination measures after the preparation of the remains.

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Terminal Disinfection

Question 7

Any procedure used to prove a sign of death.

Answer 7

Test of Death

Question 8

Study of Death.

Answer 8

Thanatology

Question 9

Destruction of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues; seared, charred.

Answer 9

Third Degree Burns

Question 10

The property of certain cells of becoming fluid when shaken, and then becoming solid again.

Answer 10

Thixotrophy

Question 11

Preparation room equipment used to pass a ligature underneath a raised vessel.

Answer 11

Thread Passer

Question 12

The formation or presence of an attached blood clot.

Answer 12

Thrombosis

Question 13

A buzzing or ringing in the ears.

Answer 13

Tinnitus

Question 14

A substance used to elevate sunken (emaciated) tissues to normal level by hypodermic injection.

Answer 14

Tissue Builder

Question 15

A general term the solidification of a solution into a gelatinous mass. Agglutination is a specific form of coagulation.

Answer 15

Tissue Coagulation

Question 16

Postmortem accumulation of gas in tissues or cavities brought about by an anaerobic gas forming bacillus (ex. clostridium perfringens.

Answer 16

Tissue Gas

Question 17

Threshold Limit Value

Answer 17

TLV

Question 18

The yellowing/browning of the finer nails and fingers from excessive use of cigarettes; a surface discoloration.

Answer 18

Tobacco Tars

Question 19

Disinfection of the surface of the body or an object.

Answer 19

Topical Disinfection

Question 20

Blood clot which forms when the blood plasma passes through the capillary walls and leaves the blood cells behind.

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Tough Dry Clots aka White Fibrin Clot

Question 21

The presence of toxins in the blood.

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Toxemia

Question 22

A poisonous substance of plant, animal bacterial or fungal origin.

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Toxin

Question 23

An agonal or postmortem redistribution of host microflora on a hostwide basis.

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Translocation aka Agonal Translocation

Question 24

The grafting of living tissue from its normal position to another site, or of an organ or tissue from one person to another.

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Transplantation

Question 25

Lying at right angles to the ling axis of the body.

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Transverse

Question 26

A vascular incision made at 90 degrees to the long axis of the vessel.

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Transverse Incision

Question 27

A physical injury or wound caused by external force or violence.

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Trauma

Question 28

Lying at right angles to the long axis of the body.

Answer 28

Transverse

Question 29

A vascular incision made at 90 degrees to the long axis of the vessel.

Answer 29

Transverse Incision

Question 30

A physical injury or wound caused by external force or violence.

Answer 30

Trauma

Question 31

A vascular incision which is made by cutting a small triangular wedge from the wall of the vessel.

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Triangular Incision aka Wedge Incision

Question 32

Sharply pointed surgical instrument used in cavity embalming to aspirate the cavities and inject cavity fluid. May also be used for supplemental hypodermic embalming.

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Trocar

Question 33

A plastic threaded screw like device for sealing punctures and small round trocar openings.

Answer 33

Trocar Button

Question 34

Preparation room equipment used to insert trocar buttons into trocar punctures created when the trocar is inserted into the body.

Answer 34

Trocar Button Applicator

Question 35

A line drawn or visualized on the surface of the body or a prominent anatomic structure used to locate internal structures during cavity embalming, from a point of reference two inches to the left of and two inches superior to the umbilicus.

Answer 35

Trocar Guide

Question 36

Homogeneous mixture of two or more substances able to pass through a semi-permeable membrane. The size of the solute particles is less than one nanometer.

Answer 36

True Solution

Question 37

A vascular incision created by marking a short transverse incision at a right angle to the long axis of the vessel; then with the point of the scissors inserted into the original opening, a second incision is made parallel to the long axis of the vessel.

Answer 37

T-Shaped Incision

Question 38

Capable of inducing growth of a tumor.

Answer 38

Tumorigenic

Question 39

A covering or layer.

Answer 39

Tunic

Question 40

In liquids, muddy with particles of extraneous matter, not clear or transparent.

Answer 40

Turbid

Question 41

An evaluation of exposures that are time-weighted over an established period. It allows the exposure levels to be averaged generally over an eight-hour time period.

Answer 41

Time-Weighted Average aka TWA