Pre-Embalming Changes Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+
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Pre-Embalming Changes Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+
Moribund - Answers In a dying state (in the agonal period). This period may be a matter of seconds or may continue for an extended period of time. If the state is longer there may be imminent signs.
Death Rattle - Answers noise made by a ...
Pre-Embalming Changes Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+
Moribund - Answers In a dying state (in the agonal period). This period may be a matter of seconds or
may continue for an extended period of time. If the state is longer there may be imminent signs.
Death Rattle - Answers noise made by a moribund person caused by air passing through a residue of
mucous in the trachea and posterior oral cavity
Death Struggle - Answers The semi-convulsive twitches which often occur before death
Agonal Algor - Answers DECREASE in body temps immediately before death. Common when death
occurs slowly.
Agonal Fever - Answers INCREASE of body temp immediately before death. Common with infection
(toxemia and poisoning).
-This leads to increase of microbial growth.
Agonal Hypostasis - Answers Settling of blood into dependent tissues.
-Dependent = depends on gravity
Agonal Coagulation - Answers Change from a fluid into a thickened mass of blood immediately before
death; due to circulation of blood slowing down.
agonal capillary expansion - Answers The dilation of pores within the capillaries in an effort to send more
oxygen to the tissues and the cells
Agonal Edema - Answers escape of blood serum from an intravascular to an extravascular location
immediately before death. Can be the result of disease processes or capillary expansion.
Agonal Dehydration - Answers Loss of moisture before death. May occur in tandem with agonal edema
but in other parts of the body. May also occur in the capillaries when fluid leaks out leading to
dehydration in the vascular system but increased fluids in the tissues.
Agonal Translocation - Answers redistribution of endemic microflora on a host-wide basis immediately
before death. Most of these microbes are part of the microflora of the gut.
-Organisms may be motile, may enter and move through the bloodstream, or may move with shifts in
moisture and hypostatic changes.
Antemortem Subcutaneous Emphysema - Answers Distension of the tissues beneath the skin by gas or
air from a puncture or tear in the pleural sac or lung tissue.
Necrobiosis - Answers Antemortem, physiological death of the cells of the body followed by their
replacement.
Necrosis - Answers pathological death of a tissue still a part of the living organism
, Gas Gangrene - Answers antemortem form of gangrene, associated with anaerobic gas forming bacilli,
most commonly, Clostridium perfringens.
Therapeutic Agents - Answers -Chemo agents
-Blood thinners
-Antibiotics
-Vasodilators
Apparent Death - Answers condition in which the manifestations of life are feebly maintained and
eventually death occurs
Somatic Death - Answers death of the organism as a whole
Clinical Death - Answers respiration and heartbeat irreversibly cease
Brain Death - Answers Due to lack of oxygen
Biological Death - Answers Irreversible phase of somatic death where organs and simple body processes
can no longer operate.
Postmortem Cellular Death - Answers The death if individual cells of the body
Postmortem - Answers Period that begins after somatic death. Physical changes do not change the
chemical composition of the body or create new chemicals substances.
Algor Mortis - Answers Postmortem cooling of the body to ambient temps. Rate at which the body cools
depends on intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
Intrinsic Factors - Answers From within the body.
-Body weight (Larger surface area = Faster cooling)
(More Mass = slower cooling)
-Temp at death
-Higher temp at time of death = longer to cool off
Extrinsic Factors - Answers From outside the body
-Clothing on body
-Temp and humidity of environment
-Cause and manner of death
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