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PLTW Biomedical Science Exam Practice
Questions and Answers
What are the key components of completing an autopsy. - Answer✔✔-1. Take measurements
2. Identify person
3. Document different asspects
4. Get your tools ready
5. Internal exam
6. Digestion Exam
7. Sample Collection
8. Brain Examination
What is cause of death - Answer✔✔-Death directly caused by injury, trauma, or disease
What is manner of death - Answer✔✔-Cause of death by accident
What is mechanism of death - Answer✔✔-What happens inside the body to cause death
What aspect most often requires data and information collected outside of the autopsy - Answer✔✔-
Mechanism of death
What is the integumentary system - Answer✔✔-Hair, skin, nails
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Forms the bodies external coverings, protects deeper tissue from injury, helps regulate body
temperature
What is the skeletal system - Answer✔✔-Bones, joints
Protects and supports body organs, provides a framework for muscles can years to move, stores minerals
What is the muscular system - Answer✔✔-Skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, smooth muscle
Moves the body and moves substances around the body, maintain posture, produce heat
What is the nervous system - Answer✔✔-Brain, spinal cord, nerves, sensory receptors
Response to internal and external changes by acting an appropriate response, processes info
What is the cardiovascular system - Answer✔✔-Heart, blood vessels (veins, arteries, capillaries)
Pumps blood around the body, transports oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, and waste
What is the respiratory system - Answer✔✔-Nasal cavity, trachea, lungs, bronchus
Assist with gas exchange with the X ternal environment, keeps blood supplied with oxygen and removes
carbon dioxide
What is the lymphatic and immune system - Answer✔✔-Lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, bone marrow
Filter fluid in the body, Mounts the attack against foreign substances in the body
What is the digestive system - Answer✔✔-Oral cavity, esophagus, small/large intestines, stomach
Breaks down food into nutrients molecules, absorbs nutrients, rids body of waste
What is the urinary system - Answer✔✔-Kidney, bladder, ureter, uretha
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