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1
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A brown to black band of discolored sclera of the eye. Created by the postmortem drying of the sclera by the air.

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Tache Noire

2
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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.

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Tardieu Spots

3
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Chemicals which will affect adversely certain organs.

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Target Organ Effects

4
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The science of treating the body chemically so as to temporarily inhibit decomposition.

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Temporary Preservation

5
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An agent which can cause non-inheritable mutations in offspring.

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Teratogen

6
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Institution of disinfection and decontamination measures after the preparation of the remains.

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Terminal Disinfection

7
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Any procedure used to prove a sign of death.

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Test of Death

8
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Study of Death.

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Thanatology

9
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Destruction of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues; seared, charred.

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Third Degree Burns

10
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The property of certain cells of becoming fluid when shaken, and then becoming solid again.

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Thixotrophy

11
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Preparation room equipment used to pass a ligature underneath a raised vessel.

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Thread Passer

12
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The formation or presence of an attached blood clot.

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Thrombosis

13
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A buzzing or ringing in the ears.

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Tinnitus

14
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A substance used to elevate sunken (emaciated) tissues to normal level by hypodermic injection.

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Tissue Builder

15
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A general term the solidification of a solution into a gelatinous mass. Agglutination is a specific form of coagulation.

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Tissue Coagulation

16
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Postmortem accumulation of gas in tissues or cavities brought about by an anaerobic gas forming bacillus (ex. clostridium perfringens.

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Tissue Gas

17
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Threshold Limit Value

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TLV

18
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The yellowing/browning of the finer nails and fingers from excessive use of cigarettes; a surface discoloration.

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Tobacco Tars

19
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Disinfection of the surface of the body or an object.

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Topical Disinfection

20
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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

21
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The presence of toxins in the blood.

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Toxemia

22
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A poisonous substance of plant, animal bacterial or fungal origin.

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Toxin

23
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An agonal or postmortem redistribution of host microflora on a hostwide basis.

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Translocation aka Agonal Translocation

24
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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

25
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Lying at right angles to the ling axis of the body.

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Transverse

26
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A vascular incision made at 90 degrees to the long axis of the vessel.

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Transverse Incision

27
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A physical injury or wound caused by external force or violence.

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Trauma

28
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Lying at right angles to the long axis of the body.

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Transverse

29
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A vascular incision made at 90 degrees to the long axis of the vessel.

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Transverse Incision

30
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A physical injury or wound caused by external force or violence.

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Trauma

31
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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

32
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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

33
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A plastic threaded screw like device for sealing punctures and small round trocar openings.

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Trocar Button

34
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Preparation room equipment used to insert trocar buttons into trocar punctures created when the trocar is inserted into the body.

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Trocar Button Applicator

35
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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.

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Trocar Guide

36
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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.

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True Solution

37
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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.

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T-Shaped Incision

38
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Capable of inducing growth of a tumor.

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Tumorigenic

39
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A covering or layer.

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Tunic

40
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In liquids, muddy with particles of extraneous matter, not clear or transparent.

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Turbid

41
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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 an eight-hour time period.

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Time-Weighted Average aka TWA