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PLTW BIOMED 1 Exam 2024 With 100% Correct Answers
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PLTW BIOMED 1 (1).pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/NIW/PLTW%20BIOMED%201%20(1)PLTW BIOMED 1.2
1. morgue: a place where dead human bodies are kept temporarily before burial,
identification, or autopsy
2. autopsy: the evaluation of a corpse to determine the cause of death
3. CAUSE of death: The specific injury, trauma, or disease that directly caused the
victim's death
4. MECHANISM of death: The specific body failure that results in death
5. MANNER of death: Circumstances that led to death- can be natural or unnatural
(unnatural- accident, homicide, undetermined)
6. medical examiner / forensic pathologist: A physician who performs an autopsy
when death may be accidental or intentional. They may also serve in some jurisdic-
tions as the coroner.
7. body system: group of organs that work together to perform a specific function
8. key components of an autopsy: identification, stomach contents, internal and
external examination, analysis of brain, documentation, and sample collection
9. GROSS examination: Viewing specimens with the bare eye
10. 11 main organ systems: Cardiovascular system, Digestive system, Lymphatic
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system, Muscular system, Nervous system, Skeletal system, Respiratory system,
Urinary system, Reproductive system, Endocrine system, Integumentary system
11. Purpose of an autopsy: determine cause of death
12. Physiological time of death: The time when the decedent's vital functions
actually ceased
13. estimated time of death: The time the medical examiner estimates that the
death occurred
14. legal time of death: The time of death recorded on the death certificate; basedon
when the body was found or physically pronounced dead
15. Algor Mortis: Post-mortem cooling of the body to the surrounding temperature.
16. when does algor mortis start/end?: begins immediately after death
17. Rigor Mortis: stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death
18. When does rigor mortis start/end?: begins 2-4 hrs after death, and is in full
affect 8-12 hrs after death. starts fading away 36-48 hrs after death
19. Livor mortis: a purple or red discoloration of the skin caused by pooling of blood
after death
20. when does livor mortis start/end: begins 2 hrs after death, fully set after 12
hrs of death
21. Timeline of a body after death: Figure 1 in 1.2.2 on PLTW website!
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